Fully removing McAfee

agrinnall

I've been using my new laptop, an Asus ZenBook 14 (Win 10 Home), for a couple of weeks now. It came with a trial of McAfee LiveSafe, which I have not activated. I would like to completely remove all traces of this (or as many as it is practical to remove), other than uninstalling is there a better way to do it using some sort of removal tool?

cajef

Used this on a recent new desktop.

http://mcafee-removal-tool.com/

fifeken

I've used Revo Uninstaller for hard to budge programs in the past.

EveryWhere

agrinnall wrote: »

I've been using my new laptop, an Asus ZenBook 14 (Win 10 Home), for a couple of weeks now. It came with a trial of McAfee LiveSafe, which I have not activated. I would like to completely remove all traces of this (or as many as it is practical to remove), other than uninstalling is there a better way to do it using some sort of removal tool?

https://service.mcafee.com/webcenter/portal/oracle/webcenter/page/scopedMD/s55728c97_466d_4ddb_952d_05484ea932c6/Page29.jspx

agrinnall

Thanks to cjaef and fifeken, I'll give one of them a try.


EveryWhere, that's not really an answer to the question I asked.

agrinnall

Turns out that as long as you uninstall all the parts of McAfee that are in the Apps list then there's nothing left for Revo to find.

AndyPix

Use the uninstall tool - it reaches places other uninstallers find hard to reach :rotfl:


http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp

dogmaryxx

AndyPix wrote: »

Use the uninstall tool - it reaches places other uninstallers find hard to reach :rotfl:

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Like the download folders of peoples computers .

Live link

EveryWhere

agrinnall wrote: »

Thanks to cjaef and fifeken, I'll give one of them a try.


EveryWhere, that's not really an answer to the question I asked.

Actually it was a direct link to the McAfee Removal Tool, together with an instructional video. I don't know what happened Perhaps it became truncated.

Here it is again

agrinnall

AndyPix wrote: »

Use the uninstall tool - it reaches places other uninstallers find hard to reach :rotfl:


http://us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp

Thanks Andy, that has indeed found and removed some left over junk.

EveryWhere wrote: »

Actually it was a direct link to the McAfee Removal Tool, together with an instructional video. I don't know what happened Perhaps it became truncated.

Here it is again

I did wonder if the link should have gone somewhere different to where it took me, I guess with the new link it'll end up at the same tool that Andy linked to.

EveryWhere

agrinnall wrote: »

Thanks Andy, that has indeed found and removed some left over junk.





I did wonder if the link should have gone somewhere different to where it took me, I guess with the new link it'll end up at the same tool that Andy linked to.

Same thing. Just clear instructions in case you weren't confident.