In this post I will tell you how to uninstall the Golden Casino Mail Notifier. It’s one of the stupidest things golden casino has come up with and you have to follow these simple steps to remove it permanently.
- Go to your start menu and click “run”.
- enter “regedit” in the open box and click OK.
- click edit and select find from the drop-down menu, a panel should open up enter in the text field “gcnotifier” and press find next.
- You will see on your right the location address to “gcnotifier.exe”. You can either write this down or open up your hard drive from the start menu and follow the path that is in your regedit screen as stated below. Note: ” you must have ‘hidden folders shown’ in your folder options and be the administative user for Windows XP.”
- Go to your start menu and click “My Computer”.
- Now follow the path to “gcnotifier.exe”.
- Right click on “gcnotifier” icon and click delete.
- Now go back to regedit and right click on “gcnotifier.exe” and click delete.
- You have now successfully uninstalled this stupid application.
After searching high and low for something like this and seeing all the answers that did not work I decided to write my own. I hope this helps someone. Golden Casino might be cool to some people, but when they make an application that doesn’t easily uninstall itself. That is not cool.
Editors note 12/19/2007: This only gets rid of Golden Casino Mail after you uninstall Golden Casino. I have called Golden Casinos’ (800) number and asked them how to remove Golden Casino Mail and still use Golden Casino and was told ” Golden Casino Mail is part of the application and cannot be removed “.
HOLY COW !!
I am so happy to have found this info. Thank you.
FYI I had to do the find next twice to get rid of it, so there may be two files to search for.
Thanks again
@Bo just a thank you will suffice DUDE.
@jerzeygurl What can i say 1 dollar
@Bill no need to put the golden casino website on my comments and your welcome.
@Tillie high five
@Rob I know nothing about computers. That’s all you gotta say to keep you from working on your friends computers
@Bolivar yes the cow is holy
Thank you for the instructions. It was the first time I installed that type of thing on my computer. Was looking to get rid of that notifier. Its not right that programs don’t come with a uninstall program.:)
hater, thanks for the help, glad there a people like you out there to protect the lil guy…
no prob. If they don’t fix this word of mouth will fix them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the info on how to get rid if that stupid Goldern Casino Notifier. That darn thing was a royal pain in the butt. My computer also runs better since I got rid of that notifier.
Thanks again……………………Patti
please help, I;ve been trying and trying to uninstall goldencasino mail notifier .I’ve tried following your steeps to no avail.I totally lost after text field gcnotifier and press next.Whe i go to my computer i don’t understand what path,and so on .Please hlp.
Omg! I didn’t double check my spelling,forgive me. Hope you understand what it is i’m trying to explain.
Don’t worry about the spelling. Think of your computer as an electronic filing cabinet with folders within folders and files in those folders. path being c:\whatever shows up when you search in regedit. If you can explain in more detail, I would be glad to help.
Very last step did not work, but it got the job done. Thanks!
Thanks Jerry L, I couldn’t get rid it until I read your comment.
Hi it’s me again, with the same problem. I got so disgusted I gave up trying to uninstall golden casino notifier. Here’s where I get lost.(click edit and select from the drop-down menu a panel opens enter the text field”gcnotifier” and press find next. NOW I AM LOST,because nothing i try afterwards is working. HELP ME, PLEASE!
Why can’t I receive a reply? I don’t understand Mail will not be published.(require).Explain please. Thanks.
Easy Steps on ” how I removed Golden Casino Notifier “.
1. Left click on the ” Start Menu ”
2. Click on ” RUN… ” from the drop down menu
3. Write the word : ” msconfig ” in the box and press OK
4. then go to the last tab on the right that says: ” START UP ”
5. Go down the list and choose the file ” gcnotifier.exe ”
6. Unselect the box and click on OK
7. Now it will ask if you want to restart the computer…select yes if you want the GC notifier to be removed right away.
And that’s it.
P.S. at that restart of your PC it will give you a text telling you that you have changed some settings from windows blah blah blah … Just say ok and click on the box to say that you don’t want this pop up on the next start up.
P.S.S by the way, you can do the same procedure on other application that start up on the launch of your pc. Since I removed 70% of the start up applications, my pc launches 5 x faster.
@Troy sorry I didn’t get back I’ve been really busy, I approve the comment s because people like to spam websites such as this one. What’s the matter? What I mean by path is c:/whatever/whatever/whatever/gcnotifier.whatever. The path in your c drive.
@Kevin I think you are just changing the boot configuration, when you take out boot time programs (programs at boot) your boot time speed will definitely increase. However, you are not deleting gcnotifier.exe But if it works for you then do it. The steps in the article and in the comments deletes the program from your computer.
I’ve been trying to get rid of that Golden Notifier, I followed your instruction but when I hit Find type in genotifier my computer doesn’t find it like you said. Help
@linda of course it won’t find genotifier, try typing in gcnotifier.
thanks dave oh and you’ll never get rid of the spammers cause your site is in the top 5 on google’s blog search
id recommend taking your email of this site or get privacycouncil.org
or you’ll get spam and hacked real soon
thanks again golden notifier is so annoying
Top 5 well I didn’t even notice. Please don’t crack me harry. I hack all the time I just don’t crack. Oh Well. No Prob.
Question: if you did a system restore on your xp machines would that eliminate the GC notifier???? Keep in mind I couldnt restore to the time before i installed GC because i had installed alot of apps after i installed GC …………….. but i am just wondering out of curiousity…….
I was chatting with goldencasino live support, when I came across this website. They emailed me instructions on how to remove it.
And lo and behold, it was a copy paste job (word for word) of these instructions.
Here’s my copy/paste of the email:
Dear Kevin,
How are you doing? I hope everything is well on your end. As per your request via chat here is how to remove the mail notifier from your computer.
1. Go to your start menu and click “run”.
2. enter “regedit” in the open box and click OK.
3. click edit and select find from the drop-down menu, a panel should open up enter in the text field “gcnotifier” and press find next.
4. You will see on your right the location address to “gcnotifier.exe”. You can either write this down or open up your hard drive from the start menu and follow the path that is in your regedit screen as stated below. Note: ” you must have ‘hidden folders shown’ in your folder options and be the administative user for Windows XP.”
5. Go to your start menu and click “My Computer”.
6. Now follow the path to “gcnotifier.exe”.
7. Right click on “gcnotifier” icon and click delete.
8. Now go back to regedit and right click on “gcnotifier.exe” and click delete.
9. You have now successfully uninstalled the application.
If you have any other questions or comments contact us at 1-800-980-7818. Thanks and have a good day!
Warm Regards,
Lizeyka
Customer Care
Golden Casino
@Jerry Lockham
That was actually one of the first things I tried, it didn’t work for me.
@kevin
Certain things I don’t like to think about. It’s probably one of the reasons they don’t have it on the website.
Thanks Man!
I ran spyware removal programs, virus checkers, banged my head against the wall trying to get rid of this thing.
Your fix worked great. Thanks for taking the time to help others.
@kevin, glad I could help bills in the mail. lol. the only people who believe it to be spyware just so happen to be people who sell spyware removal tools.
You are the man. Worked like a charm.
@Ian glad it help you out
Thanks bud! I had to help a friend with this over the phone and couldn’t have done it without this!
Brad
Hey buddy!
That gcnotifier was the worst! I am pretty good with computers….but this one was driving me nuts! THANK YOU…THANK YOU…THANK YOU!
I’ll sing your praises for the next 100 years! (smile)..
Thanks so much!! I have been trying to get rid of this stupid thing for months! and i didnt even download it my boyfriend did! but thanks so much it has been driving me crazy!
Thanks for the info, it worked and was very helpful to those of us that want our PC’s running smooth without the clutter
I’m glad you posted this!
I keep getting the following message:
Cannot delete gcnotifier: Access is denied
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
How do I get around this? Please help.
Never mind – I brought up the task manager to stop the application from running and then was able to successfully delete it. Thanks for help with everything else.
Thanx so much …that stupid thing has been driving me nutz for a while now…i tried a few other removals ..they didn’t work ….your instuctions were very easy ..even for me ..as I’m not exactly 100% computer literate.
Again thanx so much
Lynn
thank you over & over you helped me remove a pain in the ass!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you so much – this thing has been popping up for months and i had tried everything!
Sorry but I really can’t find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER thing in My Computer. I have turned hidden folders off! Why can’t I see it??
Im having some problems. When you listed that you should go to: click edit and select find from the drop-down menu, a panel should open up enter in the text field “gcnotifier” and press find next. When I do this, nothing happens? Can you help
Hello Blogger,
First off, I would like to say Thank you to the creator of this blog post. It certainly seems as if it has helped many people and it helped me to get rid of that annoying mailer.
One note to others…
Be sure to exit or end the Mailer application prior to trying to delete it otherwise you will get an error much like Jeff did.
What a relief, someone who knew how to get rid of gcnotifier, thank you for your help. Regards Neil of Brisbane Aust.
you did a great job in helping all those people by putting up this blog. You helped and relieved some frustration a lot of people. Great job.
Yet another one who was so annoyed by this notifier.
You have no ideahow happy I am now.
For almost two years thisthing was bugging me.