So I’m relatively new to PC gaming and I made the bright idea of thinking I needed appcenter on my system. Well now I just found out it tried to install Norton through a supposed “update” and now I want appcenter off my system after finding out how bad it is. Is there anything I need to be aware of when uninstalling this? I wanna be sure I do this right before I mess something up. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Hey, asking for a bit of help maybe someone can give me a hand :) Got tired of AppCenter and not using its features, so went to Control Panel and Uninstalled it, everything went ok but even after restart the App CEnter still starts up with Windows and the app it's still installed without a option to Uninstall it.... There a way to remove it for good without causing to much confisuin to Windows?

Tks

Hey everybody,

So I've recently gotten a pre-built computer and for some reason despite running the windows setup myself it comes with Gigabyte App Center auto installed. This program seems to only do one thing: pop up in the middle of the screen and sit on top of other apps. It's not malware as it's clearly intended to be used by the motherboard manufacturer in some way, however removing it is proving to be quite a challenge.

Visual of this wonderful app

I can kill the task by going to task manager and ending it and it will only re-boot if my computer goes to sleep and comes back or on a hard reset. I've checked msconfig boot and it doesn't seem to be listed in there as a piece of software to launch on boot.

I've deleted it a number of times but it always reinstalls itself - so I tried removing it in safe mode and same thing it's definitely embedded in root to install & launch. Now it's only a mild irritation but I don't want to have to deal with this everytime I launch my computer. Virus scanners wont recognize it as malware because it's not so I'm not really sure if there's any software or good ways to go and nuke this thing for good. I've also tried installing Gigabyte App Center from their site and using the uninstall but it only removes the far more functional version it installs.

It goes by a few names - the app visible just says APP Center (can't be clicked on or interacted with in any way)

In system 32 and Task Manager it's called GigabyteDownloadAssistant.exe and there's another GigabyteUpdateService.exe that also seems to be reinstalling itself.

As far as hits in the registry I have found the following under UFC / SHC folders

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GIGABYTE\APP Center\Launch APP Center.lnk

C:\Program Files (x86)\GIGABYTE\AppCenter\RunUpd.exe

As well as under Windows NT / Current Version / AppCompatFlags / Compatibility Assistant / Store

C:\Users\sciar\Desktop\Gigabyte App Center\Setup.exe

C:\Users\sciar\Desktop\Gigabyte Download Assistant\Setup.exe

I've removed every bit of existence of this stupid thing line by line from the registry after deleting every semblance of it I can fine and even checking every boot sequence to disable it while in Safe mode (Where it doesn't start). Upon reboot sure enough it's back in the middle of my screen. I've run out of ideas wondering if anybody else has anything please I'd love the help. This thing is more persistent and mildly annoying than any virus I've ever had to clean out.

Thanks in advance

Found this offering up some solutions if anybody ever stumbles across this in a search
https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/mx6634/unresponsive_app_center_window_in_the_middle_of/