Getting rid of Games Desktop forever
For many users, downloading free programs is more common. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this. But often, along with such free programs, a bunch of extraneous programs of unknown origin are installed on the computer, which entail only troubles. One of these troubles is hard to remove viruses. Sometimes, after installing free software, you can see various program widgets on your computer that were not there before. One such widget is the Games Desktop program.
Games Desktop is a kind of news informant about various computer games. It shows new games, and also talks about updates to those games that are already on your computer. But any programs installed “unauthorized” will not bring anything good to your computer. That is why you can safely call Games Desktop a virus application and delete it.
The Games Desktop app can be remove using standard means Windows operating system. But before that, you need to close certain processes in the task manager. Therefore, open the task manager and end all processes whose name will include Games Desktop, in particular, the processes gamesdesktop_widget.exe, unsecapp.exe.
After completing the processes, you can delete the application itself. To do this, go to the control panel of your computer and in the section "Removing programs"We permanently delete Games Desktop. But that's not all. You also need to clean the system registry from traces of this application.
This can be done using standard operating system tools, or you can use CCleaner utility. This utility has a special section "Register", which is designed to clean such traces from programs. Games Desktop is a program that in most cases is installed on the user’s computer with other free software. You will not find anything useful in this program, so feel free to delete it.