Useful Guide to Remove Takethecoupon

What is Takethecoupon? 

Are you bothered by an annoying adware called Takethecoupon? Have you ever received “Ads by Takethecoupon”? Or pop-ups “Brought by Takethecoupon”, “Powered by Takethecoupon”? If your answer is Yes, then your computer was already a target of Takethecoupon. What you are supposed to do is get rid of it immediately.

Harmful properties of Takethecoupon are listed below: 

1. It pops up numerous ads when you are online. You will feel fairly tired to look at and close pop-ups from time to time.
2. Takethecoupon presents you coupons and deals that seem to be available. While after you click on the ads, you realize that they are all fake. They are just shown there to induce you to click so that Takethecoupon’s programmer can generate pay-per-click revenue.
3. Takethecoupon is capable to redirect you to its promotional websites every time you search something on your browser. Its certain webs may be a phishing website and it may cause a loss of your interests.
4. Takethecoupon can feign itself and update itself to get successfully hidden in your computer. Therefore, it is hard for the antivirus to trace it and clear up.
5. Takethecoupon and all the procedures related to it run behind the screen to consume system resources. As a result, your PC performance becomes poorer and you find it runs like a snail when you open a new window.

All in all, Takethecoupon is a nasty adware which deserved to be removed as quickly as possible.

Remove Takethecoupon with SpyHunteer automatically and completely.

If you want to remove Takethecoupon, I would like to recommend SpyHunter because it can easily delete Takethecoupon and other unwanted programs and virus completely and permanently. And I’m sure you will benefit a lot from its usefulness. Detailed instructions are given below.

 1.    Click on “Download” and when it pops up “File Download – Security Warning”, click “Run”.

 2.    When you see this image, again you click on “Run”.

3.    Select your language, click “OK” and “Continue”.

4.    As shown in the image below, “INSTALL” SpyHunter.

5.    Select all the threats related to Takethecoupon and clean up.


If you prefer to delete Takethecoupon manually, I also present you instructions step by step.

Instructions to remove Takethecoupon manually.

Step 1: Stop Takethecoupon from Task Manager.

Right-click on the taskbar then you can see the menu.

Or you can press “Windows” together with “R” on your keyboard, type “taskmgr” in the input box.

You can choose what related to Takethecoupon and “End Process”.

Step 2: Find hidden files and folders related to Takethecoupon and clean out.

Click at left bottom, click on “Control Panel” option.

Click on “Appearance and Personalization”.

Then you can find “Show hidden files and folders” under “Folder Option” and click it.

Finally, you can successfully find out the relevant hidden files and folders and delete them.

Step 3: Remove Takethecoupon from Registry Editor.

Press “Windows” + “R”, then fill in the input box with “regedit”.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"

Personally speaking, I think remove Takethecoupon from Registry Editor is difficult. If you think so, then you can use SpyHunter to help you get rid of Takethecoupon and all the other harmful virus completely and permanently.

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Step 4: Clean up Takethecoupon and its relevant components from Browsers.

1.    Click on Customized and Google Chrome-> Choose Settings -> Go to Extensions. Locate Takethecoupon and select it -> click Trash button

Click   at the top right corner on the homepage of Google Chrome, click on “History” option.

Select all the history related to Takethecoupon and clean up.

2.    Click on “Open Menu” button at the top right corner on homepage of Mozilla Firefox and click “Add-ons”

Click the add-ons and extensions related to Takethecoupon and clean up.

In the end, I would like to mention that SpyHunter not only can delete Takethecoupon, but also can scan for all the useless and detrimental components on your computer and clear up.

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(Sheryl)