What is Action Center?

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Overview

Action Center is published by Action. You can find out more about Action Center at its official website or at Action's website.


How do I clean Action Center?

Action Center may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean Action Center
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean Action Center manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. Action Center stores private data in two registry keys.

Registry

To clean the registry from data stored by Action Center, you can use the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) which is installed by default on all Windows operating systems. First of all, open regedit.exe by carrying out these steps:

  • Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
  • Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
  • Type regedit.exe
  • Hit Enter

Now use regedit.exe to delete the registry keys:

    • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
    • Expand Software.
    • Expand Microsoft.
    • Expand Windows.
    • Expand CurrentVersion.
    • Expand Action Center.
    • Right-click Checks.
    • Choose Delete from the context menu.
    • Click Yes.
    • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
    • Expand Software.
    • Expand Microsoft.
    • Expand Windows.
    • Expand CurrentVersion.
    • Expand Action Center.
    • Expand Providers.
    • Right-click EventLog.
    • Choose Delete from the context menu.
    • Click Yes.