How to Uninstall Winamp Toolbar/Search/Plugin/Agent

Did not know how to automatically/properly upgrade the currently installed Winamp (version 2) to a newer or the latest version of it? Encounter the Winamp Installer error while you were trying to have it installed on your Windows, warning “Unable to download missing Microsoft DirectX® component. Latest version of Microsoft DirectX® available at: http://www[dot]microsoft[dot]com/download/en/datails.aspx?id=35″? Even Windows Firewall has blocked the player on your machine?

For the DirectX® installation error I’ve reviewed below, you might: 1) ensure that the Internet connection is working properly and/or fast enough. 2) re-run the Winamp installation package as system administrator when your installed antivirus program/firewall is/are temporarily disabled, follow the express installation options exactly to make a successful installation of the player program. 3) go to the official DirectX download page, manually install it later on.

And to successfully install a newer version of Winamp on your computer without other severe computer issues, please follow the below tips: 1) you download the official installer of the media player, you can over-install of the old version 2.x or version 5.x, which would help you automatically save the preferred settings for the music player. 2) Have the version 3 installed? You’d better have the newer one installed in a new directory on your hard drives. 3) Perform a whole new installation of the player by reviewing or following the detailed support below to thoroughly remove or uninstall Winamp from your Windows computer and then launching a clean installation option for it. For computer starters, you should use the following professional uninstaller to cleanly uninstall Winamp from your Windows device and reinstall it later.

How Can I Completely Uninstall Winamp from My Windows Computer?

NOTE To fully uninstall Winamp, please review the detailed installation process of the below programs below. If you just cannot detect the installed programs on your computer, please run the following uninstaller program to effectively find and remove them from your computer.

Winamp Installer

Info: Get the Most Out of Winamp. Choose the additional features below to get the most out of Winamp.

“Get the best Winamp experience with these additional features.”
Winamp® Toolbar: download size, 2.1 MB; tip, “Control Winamp directly from your web browser and get instant access to SHOUTcast.” (Note: To fully uninstall Winamp, you may need to rid of this potentially unwanted toolbar program.)
Set AOL® Search as my default search engine: “Let Winamp help you search the web with Winamp Search.” (Note: Similarly, to completely uninstall Winamp, you will as well need to remove this search engine by AOL.)
50 free MP3 Downloads +1 Audiobook from eMusic: “Download size, 80.7 KB; info, Start an eMusic 2-week free trial and enjoy 50 MP3 music downloads for free plus 1 free audiobook. The music downloads and audiobook are yours to keep, even you cancel.”
Nullsoft Winamp 5.623 — built on 12/9/2011 at 12:30:40 PM

Tip Disabling the additional installation options for the media player above would quickly uninstall Winamp!.

Winamp Installer, again.

Info: Install Nitro PDF Reader (Recommended by Winamp)

“Easy, Intuitive tabbed PDF reader”
“Quick, Creates PDFs up to 4x faster”
“Free, Nitro PDF Reader is 100% free”

Tip You can also select the second option "I do not want to install Nitro PDF Reader" for Winamp Installer to easily uninstall Winamp at a later time.

Winamp Toolbar Setup

Info: Toolbar License Agreement and Installation Options. “Please review the terms below before installing the Toolbar.”
Option 1: Install Toolbar for Internet Explorer
Option 2: Install Toolbar for Firefox
Option 3: Install Toolbar both browsers (NOTE: NOT recommended! Or you would feel difficult to manually uninstall Winamp!)
Additional option 1: Set Winamp as my home page
Additional option 2: Use AOL Search as my default search engine

Tip You could have the said toolbar installed on the current version of Mozilla or Microsoft’s IE. And then you can diselect the last option, AOL Search, for this Winamp Toolbar Setup.

eMusic Download Manager

Info 1: Welcome to the eMusic Download Manager
Tip 1: Download full albums with one click
Tip 2: Organize all your downloads into one folder
Tip 3: Immediately listen to your downloads
Info 2: Begin installation now by clicking next
Additional option: “Yes, I also want to get FREE MUSIC every day with the eMusic Discovery Toolbar. Clicking on ‘Next’ will begin the install of the eMusic Discovery Toolbar.”

Tip You can disable the default install option for eMusic Download Manager to uninstall Winamp only.

Employing using any administrator accounts on your Windows device, you then save and close all your personal work, the running Windows applications, web browsers.

Section One: Uninstall Winamp (remove the main application)

Tip You can use this Solution 1 to automatically uninstall Winamp from your system.

Click on the Windows Home/Start key on your keyboard >> the All Programs; or the Programs on your Windows XP SP3 computer >>

Enter the Winamp entry on the left pane; scroll down and launch the Unisntall Winamp application to start the automatic un-install of it.

Select the Yes option from Windows 7/Vista’s User Account Control to continue uninstall Winamp. See the details below.

Program name: UninstWA.exe
Publisher: Unknown
File origin: Hard drive on this computer
Program location: “C:\Program Files\Winamp\UninsWA.exe”

To completely uninstall Winamp, you could enable the below options for the Winamp Uninstall wizard and click Next > on it. See the details.

Info: Remove Winamp from your computer.
Option 1: Media Player: Uninstall all Winamp Media Player components including bundled third party plug-ins.
Option 2: User Preferences: Remove all Winamp preferences and plug-ins.
Additional info: Uninstall path, C:\Program Files\Winamp

Tip You might enter the installation directory above to manually delete any leftover files associated with the music player on your computer. Moreover, some of them might be removed in Windows Safe Mode ONLY! Also, you can run this smart uninstall tool to forcibly uninstall Winamp on your PC.

PLEASE, select the two uninstall options below from the Winamp Uninstall window to fully uninstall Winamp; then you click the Uninstall button on it.

Info1: Choose related programs to uninstall.
Info 2: The following Winamp related programs will be removed in this uninstall:

Option 1: Winamp Toolbar: "Control Winamp directly from your web browser and get instant access to SHOUTcast."
Option 2: Winamp Detector Plug-in: “Winamp Detector Plug-in for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.”

“Please wait while Winamp is being uninstalled.”. Click the Show details for more uninstallation information about it – you may need to check and remove other remaining components I’ve reviewed above to entirely uninstall Winamp.

To learn more information on the Winamp’s potential file type remains, you then select the option “Open Winamp folder” from the final window of the Winamp Uninstall – you might be able to manually delete any leftover files to cleanly uninstall Winamp. Moreover, you could tell Nullsoft, Inc your user experience by selecting the option “Help Winamp by submitting feedback”. See the details on its remaining Plugins folder and the uninstall survey page below.

Info 1: Completing the Winamp Uninstall
Info 2: Winamp has been uninstalled from your computer. Click Finish to close Setup.
“Note: Not all files were removed from this uninstall. To view, open the Winamp folder.”

Tip Click OK on the “The page at chrome://winamptoolbar says” window ("title is undefined.") to uninstall Winamp and other related programs.

You would learn that the following two problematic remaining items related with Nullsoft, Inc: "Winamp" and "Winamp Detector Plug-in".

You then need to manually remove them to completely uninstall Winamp. And you would encounter the following information while you try to do so.

Note The Programs and Features will tell you that “An error occurred while trying to uninstall Winamp. It has already been uninstalled.”. See the below similar information on the Winamp Detector Plug-in project.

Save and reboot your Windows.

Now, please take the following Solution 2 uninstall Winamp

Click Start button (>> Settings) >> Control Panel on left pane >> click the Uninstall a program or Add or Remove Programs >>
Launch the Winamp program from the Currently Installed Programs list. See some details about it.

Publisher: Nullsoft, Inc
Product version: 5.623
Help link: http://forum[dot]winamp[dot]com

You could review or follow the on-screen windows below to easily uninstall Winamp.

You can also select the Solution 3 below to uninstall Winamp

Right-click on the Uninstall Winamp application in its file folder (on All Programs/Program list) or the shortcut file for it on Desktop. Select the Winamp Properties option for it, click Open File Location/Find Target… tab on the Winamp Properties information window.

Press the [U] key on the keyboard to locate and run the following UninstWA application (size, 334 KB) to uninstall Winamp ASAP. Read more details about it.

Type of file: Application (.exe)
Description: Winamp Installer
Size: 334 KB (342,206 bytes)
Size on disk: 336 KB (344,064 bytes)
File version: 5.6.2.3199
Product version: 5.62 Build 3199
Copyright: Copyright © 1997-2011, Nullsoft, Inc.

Once again, you select Yes on the yellow UAC window to go on to uninstall Winampr.

Review or repeat related steps above to automatically uninstall Winamp.

Tip This option will help you fully uninstall Winamp by manually deleting the files leftover related with the player.

Now, you remove the Nitro Pro 7 to fully uninstall Winamp

Note The Nitro has been removed from the programs list. Click here for more help on how to uninstall Windows programs via using its GUID (Universally Unique Identifier).

Press the Show desktop on the right bottom of your Windows.
Right click on the Nitro Pro 7 icon on Desktop. Select the Properties >> the Open File Location/Find Target…

Try to forcibly delete those files in its installation folder to cleanly uninstall Winamp.
Run the Registry Editor >> locate the below registry key, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{C4BCCD2A-80B3-49CD-800E-EB16272E1279}] >> entering it, open up the UninstallString in it >> copy or write down the below information, [MsiExec.exe /X{C4BCCD2A-80B3-49CD-800E-EB16272E1279}].

Press [Windows] key + [R] key >> type [cmd] in Run >> input [cd(space)C:\Windows\System 32] (where the MsiExec.exe application is located), press [Enter] key >> click the title of Windows cmd.exe application; scroll down, click Edit, then copy this [MsiExec.exe /X{C4BCCD2A-80B3-49CD-800E-EB16272E1279}]; and then launch the Paste option in it >> press [Enter] key again

Click Yes on Windows Installer to totally uninstall Winamp, “Are you sure you want to uninstall this product?”

Please wait while Windows is “preparing to remove/configures Nitro Pro 7″. In case that any installed web browser is still running in background, you then save it and then apply the second one, “Do not close applications (A Reboot may be required.)”. Click OK then. You select the option “Automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after setup is complete.” from Nitro Pro 7 window (NOT recommended!).

Tip You can run Windows Task Manager to terminate all the running web browsers to safely uninstall Winamp.

Click OK on the following Nitro Pro 7, “The setup was unable to automatically close all requested applications. Please ensure that the applications holding files in use are closed before continuing with the installation.”.

Save and restart your Windows.

If you just could not complete the automatic removal of Nitro program, try the powerful Auto Uninstaller above to remove the PDF software forcibly – another way to thoroughly uninstall Winamp.

Now, remove the eMusic to fully uninstall Winamp

Click Start >> scroll up till you enter the eMusic Download Manager >> launch the Remove option in it >> click Yes on UAC.
To completely remove the possible unnecessary eMusic, you could select Yes on eMusic Download Manager 4..1.4 Uninstall, “Would you like to delete your eMusic Download Manager settings?”.

Wait; then you click OK on the said "eMusic Uninstall" info box, “eMusic Download Manager was successfully removed from your computer. However, if you have installed additional software along with eMusic Download Manager, it will need to be uninstalled separately.”

Save and reboost your machine again. To effectively remove the said "additional software" above, you can use the following powerful uninstall tool.

Section Two: restore your browsers and clean those left overs to fully uninstall Winamp

Run Mozilla Firefox >> click the title of it.

Enter the Add-ons on the menu >>

You could learn more details about the currently installed add-ons in Firefox; then you launch the Remove option for the following potentially unwanted items to completely uninstall Winamp and make your Firefox run fast.

Item 1: Winamp Toolbar 5.6.19.1
Item 2: eMusic Toolbar 2.3.0.4 (eMusic Toolbar is incompatible with Firefox 12.0)

Click the Restart now button to re-run Firefox.

To fully uninstall Winamp 5.6, you then open up the Manage Search Engines List in Firefox >> launch the Remove option for the AOL Web Search item on the Manage Search Engine List >> click OK.

Run your Firefox to check the configuration you made to it.
Now, run the Windows Internet Explorer: you’ll find the AOL Web Search that still get left in system.; but you just could not remove it directly from the Search Providers: you first set Bing the default engine and then remove AOL project to fully uninstall Winamp.

To completely remove the large quantities of remained files and registry keys on your computer, you need to manually find and delete them to cleanly uninstall Winamp. See the screenshots below; it’s highly recommended you download the perfect, powerful Windows uninstaller to effectively detect and clean them.

If you still have any difficulties removing the file and registry entries associated with the programs above, please use the recommended Auto uninstall program to force uninstall uninstall Winamp and/or other unwanted programs/toolbar. You could also learn or refer to the below uninstall tutorials for more help.

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Related Websites & Help

FAQ – Winamp Help thank you for downloading nitro pro 7 – Nitro | Create, Convert & Edit PDF Files eMusic | Stimulating Curious Musical Minds | eMusic AOL.com – News, Sports, Weather, Entertainment, Local & Lifestyle Download: DirectX End-User Runtime (v9.29.1974) – Microsoft Download Center – Download Details (Microsoft) How to download and install DirectX (Article ID: 179113) – Microsoft Support

Related Errors Review

Tip You try to manually reset Windows Firewall. Or you click on the Allow access button on Windows Security Alert info box, telling "Windows Firewall has blocked some features of Winamp on all public and private networks." – You select the option "Private networks, such as my home or work network." for the "Allow Winamp to communicate on these networks:"