How to uninstall McAfee antivirus?
Uninstalling McAfee antivirus from your computer might be a bit difficult especially if it is pre-installed on your laptop or computer.
To remove McAfee antivirus follow these steps:
Removing Via Control Panel:
- Go to start menu and open control panel
- From here go to programs, select McAfee antivirus and select remove
- After the process is complete restart your computer to complete the uninstall of McAfee antivirus.
- After restarting go to the Primary drive of your computer which is C drive in most of the cases.
- Locate the McAfee folder in program files or X86 program files if you are using a 64 Bit version of Windows operating system
- Delete this folder and any other file or folder that is associated with McAfee
- If the normal removal process is not working go to McAfee.com website and download the automatic removal tool from the website
- After the tool has been downloaded and saved on your desktop, close all the McAfee programs that are currently running on your computer
- Now double click on MCPR.exe and wait for the process to complete, if the setup asks you for selecting an option select the appropriate and desirable option of your choice
- After the setup is complete, restart your computer.
- After this process your will have to delete the McAfee folder in your primary drive manually.
- After this process is complete, if you want to completely remove McAfee antivirus you would have to remove the registry values that are associated with McAfee antivirus.
- To do this go to start menu and select run, in the menu type regedit and press enter
- In the registry modifier dialogue box locate all of these files and delete them to remove entries
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\40C30C53F1F32C249A987A75EE96F156
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UpgradeCodes\9FF15957780018945A6265BC95AD719D]
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\40C30C53F1F32C249A987A75EE96F156]
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\40C30C53F1F32C249A987A75EE96F156]
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\UpgradeCodes\9FF15957780018945A6265BC95AD719D ]
