Any McAfee tools can be simply removed through control panel but this is not necessarily the case. The uninstalling process sometimes does not remove the entire files. While the undeleted files or folder do not bring any harm to our PC, they should actually removed to optimize the hard drive space.
If uninstalling through control panel is not successful, you can simply use McAfee Removal Tool.
1. Download McAfee Removal Tool (MCPR.exe).
2. Double click on it and run it.
3. McAfee Removal Tool will automatically identify the files that need to be removed.
4. To complete the uninstallation, reboot your computer.
Hello eches,
I experienced lots of errors when removing the trial version of McAfee Anti-virus. The McAfee Removal Tool helped but didn’t remove all of the registry keys in this instance (It had worked fine on another computer I was working on).
I used regedit to perform an Edit/Find on the word McAfee. I didn’t have any other McAfee products loaded, so any registry keys with the word McAfee in them were deleted. Press the F3 key to automatically search for the next key with McAfee in it once the initial search has found one.
Before doing this, I exported the full registry for backup purposes (File/Export whilst ‘computer’ at the top of the hive list is highlighted).
A reboot after the manual regclean resolved the issue.
Thanks,
Steve