1/24/2014

How to Uninstall CheapMe Adware - Manual Removal Guide

CheapMe Description



CheapMe is classified as an adware, which will be an unwanted program to users. In most cases, CheapMe is bundled with free downloads, if users don’t like to check installation steps and refuse additional options, CheapMe is able to sneak into targeted PC. Once installed, CheapMe will add its browser extensions to all installed web browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome. Users will begin to be disturbed by CheapMe ads popups while surfing on the Internet, especially visiting online shopping websites. CheapMe is able to record users’ browsing habit, analyze profitable data, and promote related ads for its sponsored vendors.


CheapMe mainly works for its designers to generate traffic for the ads and earn money from them. It will occupy lots of system resources to run the processes in the background. Your computer may not be sensitive like before, most of the programs cannot response quickly. What’s more, CheapMe may also bring other unwanted programs to the system, including adware, toolbar, spyware, or rogueware etc. Since users may easily click the links from ads popup by mistake, those crashers can come to targeted PC without difficulty. If users want to remove CheapMe, read the removal instruction below, or contact Tee Support Online Experts for help.

CheapMe is Very Annoying for Computer

1. CheapMe comes to your PC without permission
2. CheapMe causes lots of ads popups
3. CheapMe leads to poor performance
4. CheapMe modifies browser default settings
5. CheapMe cannot be removed completely by antivirus programs

Manual Removal Guide for CheapMe

Step1. Remove CheapMe from your Control Panel, search the similar name of it, and uninstall unknown programs that are installed recently.


Step2. Remove browser add-ons:

Internet Explorer:
1) Go to Tools -> ‘Manage Add-ons’;
2) Choose ‘Search Providers’ -> choose ‘Bing’ search engine or ‘Google’ search engine and make it default;
3) Select ‘Search Results’ and click ‘Remove’ to remove it;
4) Go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Internet Options’; select ‘General tab’ and click website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save changes.

Google Chrome
1) Click on ‘Customize and control’ Google Chrome icon, select ‘Settings’;
2) Choose ‘Basic Options’;
3) Change Google Chrome’s homepage to google.com or any other and click the ‘Manage Search Engines…’ button;
4) Select ‘Google’ from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select ‘Search Result’ from the list to remove it by clicking the ‘X’ mark.   

Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab; 

Step3. Click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by CheapMe:
%Temp%\[random]\
%Temp%\[random]\[random]agnz.exe
%AppData%\ CheapMe

Video Removal Guide for CheapMe


Note: CheapMe can be removed completely by the guys who know basic computer knowledge, if you still cannot remove CheapMe and seek professional remote assistance, welcome to contact Tee Support IT Experts.


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