Uninstalling Mcafee

bigDman · Post by **bigDman** » September 23rd, 2005, 1:14 am

Well I have a Dell Dimension 3000(with windows XP) that i got about a year ago and it came with mcafee even though I asked for no anti virus protection because I have norton. Well anyways I’ve been lazy and haven’t uninstalled mcafee and installed norton but now that the free trail for mcafee is over i went to uninstall it and couldn't. I tried to uninstall it thought the add/remove software part of the computer but it did not work does anyone know how to completely uninstall mcafee so I can install norton

Large Burgershie · September 23rd, 2005, 9:04 am

ok before i start why just leave it there it wont hurt or take up .0001mbs of disk space.

Umm why not have both? ok if you really wan to uninstall it do this. 1. START MENU > RUN > REGEDIT > CLICK MY COMP > CTRL + F (FIND) > TYPE IN "ANTI-VIRUS" > SEARCH > (2 MINS LATER) > REPEAT STEPS > TYPE IN 'MCAFFEE" > ETC. 2. C:\Windows/Unwise.exe > RUN > C:\*Where you Installed MC AFFEE*\*log*.ini > ETC. 3. Try control panel again. Try to be a bit more descriptive on why it wont uninstall like what is says. Hope that Helped

bigDman · Post by **bigDman** » September 23rd, 2005, 10:06 am

Large Burgershie wrote:ok before i start why just leave it there it wont hurt or take up .0001mbs of disk space. Umm why not have both? ok if you really wan to uninstall it do this. 1. START MENU > RUN > REGEDIT > CLICK MY COMP > CTRL + F (FIND) > TYPE IN "ANTI-VIRUS" > SEARCH > (2 MINS LATER) > REPEAT STEPS > TYPE IN 'MCAFFEE" > ETC. 2. C:\Windows/Unwise.exe > RUN > C:\*Where you Installed MC AFFEE*\*log*.ini > ETC. 3. Try control panel again. Try to be a bit more descriptive on why it wont uninstall like what is says. Hope that Helped

i havent tryed this yet(i will this afternoon) but it when i boot up tehe computer i have like 5 error messgaes telling me to reinstall mcafee because parts of it are missing so i need to get rid of it so i can stop getting all the anoing error messages

bigDman · Post by **bigDman** » September 23rd, 2005, 9:38 pm

bigDman wrote:
Large Burgershie wrote:ok before i start why just leave it there it wont hurt or take up .0001mbs of disk space. Umm why not have both? ok if you really wan to uninstall it do this. 1. START MENU > RUN > REGEDIT > CLICK MY COMP > CTRL + F (FIND) > TYPE IN "ANTI-VIRUS" > SEARCH > (2 MINS LATER) > REPEAT STEPS > TYPE IN 'MCAFFEE" > ETC. 2. C:\Windows/Unwise.exe > RUN > C:\*Where you Installed MC AFFEE*\*log*.ini > ETC. 3. Try control panel again. Try to be a bit more descriptive on why it wont uninstall like what is says. Hope that Helped
i havent tryed this yet(i will this afternoon) but it when i boot up tehe computer i have like 5 error messgaes telling me to reinstall mcafee because parts of it are missing so i need to get rid of it so i can stop getting all the anoing error messages

also after i find all the stuff when i searched ANTI VIrus do i delete it or what

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » September 23rd, 2005, 11:27 pm

Check the disks you got with you're Dell, see if you can find McAfee on it and reinstall. After you get this done you can go to C:\programs\McAfee\ and find Uninstall.exe. If this doesn't work let me know.

bigDman · Post by **bigDman** » September 24th, 2005, 12:47 am

i dont have a disk with mcafee on it what ended up doing is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run and delted all the mcafee stuff there i dont know if they completly deleted mcafee but the anoying popups dont come up anymore so its fine

Large Burgershie · September 24th, 2005, 10:07 am

yes delete it all the registry keep info of all programs installed or your machine ncluding how many trial days you have left on a program. don't ever touch it if you don't know what your doing.