Re: Make McAfee Go Away

From: Andrew Rossmann (andysnewsreply_at_no_junk.comcast.net)
Date: 11/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:12:34 -0600

In article <fg8co198gp2lsvv64sogufilk0a69sj85e@4ax.com>,
billdolgen@gazeta.pl says...
> gray.wizard@moria.mines and others wrote (no easy way out):
>
> Ok, I exported the registry and deleted every single key I
> could find that referenced Mcafee in any way. Some keys
> marked Legacy(with add-ons) would not go away, and I
> had to boot to Safe Mode in order to delete the Mcafee folders
> on the C: drive, but it all appears to be gone now. I will let
> you know if a glitch happens in the next week or so.
>
> I was under the distinct impression that Windows required all
> programs marked compatible with XP to have an uninstall
> option available. Not so?

  Don't entirely blame McAfee. Odds are, there was corruption someplace
that prevented the uninstaller from running. One fix might have been to
re-install McAfee, then see if the uninstall worked. 

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