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re: mcafee uninstall Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 5:24 am Posted by John Liebson (845 messages posted) Go to McAfee's web site, the instructions are there--somewhere. On Monday, December 22, 2003 at 10:23 pm, scott wrote: >how do i uninstall the security center,firewall and virus protection.somehow i tried >uninstalling MAGIC music maker and the uninstaller turned out to be mcafee firewall.how >that could be,i don't know. >now i can't reinstall or remove any of mcafee software.i get an error messege or >a message i already have a newer version of the firewall running.when infact it states >on the security center it's not installed.i need to clean all and start over. help! > scott [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: mcafee uninstall Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 7:06 am Posted by mikey (38 messages posted) Go to www.mcafeehelp.com You may have to delete entries in your registry. Just make sure before you do that, you back it up first. On Monday, December 22, 2003 at 10:23 pm, scott wrote: >how do i uninstall the security center,firewall and virus protection.somehow i tried >uninstalling MAGIC music maker and the uninstaller turned out to be mcafee firewall.how >that could be,i don't know. >now i can't reinstall or remove any of mcafee software.i get an error messege or >a message i already have a newer version of the firewall running.when infact it states >on the security center it's not installed.i need to clean all and start over. help! > scott [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: mcafee uninstall Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 7:52 am Posted by LB (81 messages posted) You need to remove all Mcafee from your pc even in the registry & then do a re install of Mcafee. I had the same troubles with Norton. I un installed it and re installed Norton and I got errors and here I found that there were still some norton things on my pc that I had to manually remove. I just did a pc search for norton and removed everything and anything that came up saying "norton" I then went into the reg. and found norton in there and removed anything with norton in there as well. I then used power tools reg cleaner to make sure everything involving norton was removed. I restarted the pc, then installed norton and it worked fine--no problems. Before you do anything to the registry back it up first. run, regedit, then file, export and name it and that is your back up. If you have problems you can always import the reg again if you screw something up while in there searching for norton. Hope this helps LB On Monday, December 22, 2003 at 10:23 pm, scott wrote: >how do i uninstall the security center,firewall and virus protection.somehow i tried >uninstalling MAGIC music maker and the uninstaller turned out to be mcafee firewall.how >that could be,i don't know. >now i can't reinstall or remove any of mcafee software.i get an error messege or >a message i already have a newer version of the firewall running.when infact it states >on the security center it's not installed.i need to clean all and start over. help! > scott [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: mcafee uninstall Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 9:47 am Posted by scott (31 messages posted) thanks! i got it out and reinstalled it.everythings fine. thanks again scott On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 7:52 am, LB wrote: >You need to remove all Mcafee from your pc even in the registry & then do a re install >of Mcafee. I had the same troubles with Norton. I un installed it and re installed >Norton and I got errors and here I found that there were still some norton things >on my pc that I had to manually remove. I just did a pc search for norton and removed >everything and anything that came up saying "norton" I then went into the reg. and >found norton in there and removed anything with norton in there as well. I then used >power tools reg cleaner to make sure everything involving norton was removed. I restarted >the pc, then installed norton and it worked fine--no problems. Before you do anything >to the registry back it up first. run, regedit, then file, export and name it and >that is your back up. If you have problems you can always import the reg again if >you screw something up while in there searching for norton. >Hope this helps >LB > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum