“What is Acer Portal? Is it OK to delete or uninstall Acer Portal on my Windows PC?”

Related Information:

Acer BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud) is a cross-platform, multi-device cloud system to create, personalize IoT devices to help make IoT devices be successful, where the IoT cloud apps can run on edge devices, to gateways to the cloud. As a part of the Acer BYOC apps, Acer Portal is designed to work with the user’s smart devices.

Acer: Our mission at Acer BYOC is to utilize our BeingWare and help any and all types of business deliver their unique services by providing them with intelligent, connected devices.

If you have an Acer computer, the pre-installed system may contain the BYOC apps.

In 2018 Acer announced the end of Acer Portal service. The vendor has stopped providing technical support for Acer BYOC Apps (abApps) since the September 2018. If you constantly receive the end of service notifications from BYOC Apps installed on your system, you could uninstall all of them, to free up some space on your PC.

Question: how to easily uninstall Acer Portal on Windows?

Here is the shortcut to uninstall Acer Portal or other unwanted programs on Windows:

• Download Bloatware Uninstaller from the homepage, and then install it on your PC
• Double click Bloatware Uninstaller icon in Desktop to launch the removal tool
• Click Yes in the User Account Control window to allow the launch

• Click Acer Portal icon in the Installed Programs list, and click Run Analysis button

• Click Complete Uninstall button, and then click Yes button in the pop-up window

• Follow onscreen instructions to remove Acer Portal, and click Scan Leftovers button

• Click Delete Leftovers button, and then click Yes button in the pop-up window

• Click OK when your are prompted that all leftovers have been completely removed

• Click Back to Step 1 button to re-scan system, and then close Bloatware Uninstaller

That’s how you can quickly remove Acer Portal on your PC. Bloatware Uninstaller allows you to get rid of stubborn, problematic,or malicious programs in simple clicks.

Before launching Bloatware Uninstaller, you should confirm that related programs are not active, otherwise the uninstall may become incomplete or unsuccessful.

• Right click the taskbar on the bottom of the screen and click Task Manager in the list
• In the Process tab, scroll down to locate the process associated with Acer Portal
• Highlight the process, and click End Task button to shut down the background process

1. Regular way to uninstall Acer Portal (via Start menu)

Don’t want to use the efficient removal tool to uninstall Acer Portal? You still have one option: uninstalling Acer Portal via the built-in Add/Remove Programs applet.

On Windows 7 PC:
Hit the Windows key on the keyboard and click on the Control Panel option
Choose View by Category in the upper-right corner and click on Programs
Scroll through to locate Acer Portal, and click on Uninstall/Change link above

On Windows 8 PC:
Right click on the Start menu and then choose Programs and Features in the list
Highlight Acer Portal entry, and click on Uninstall/Change to activate the uninstaller

On Windows 10 PC:
Click to extend the Start menu and then click Settings icon from the sidebar
Click the Apps section in Settings, and choose Apps and Features in the left pane
Locate Acer Portal in the right pane, click on it and choose Uninstall button

After doing those steps, follow onscreen prompts to complete the uninstall process, and then reboot your computer if necessary. But is the removal really finished yet?

2. Extra steps to do after deleting Acer Portal software

If you just delete Acer Portal from the list of installed programs, we highly suggest you to manually detect and delete its lingering files, folders and registry entries.

• Click the Start menu, choose Run option, and type “regedit” and hit Enter button to launch the Registry Editor (Windows 10: click the Search icon, type in REGEDIT, and click the Regedit entry in the Best Match result to open up the editor)

• Click Yes if you are prompted to give confirmation in the UAC dialog.
• In the Registry Editor, click the Edit menu and then choose Find option

• Type Acer Portal in the Find box, and click Find Next button to start scanning

• Once the matched entries are found, check if they are pertaining to Acer Portal. If so, right click on the key or value and choose Delete option from the list

• Hit F3 button to locate the next one, and repeat the steps to delete Acer Portal traces

Warning: make sure to backup your registry before making any modification there!

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