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I thought I had removed McAfee completely, no sign of it anywhere. Stumbling across some information I found a McAfee tool (i.e McAfees own tool ;)) that completely removes all McAfee programs and running this and checking the log afterwards there were lots and lots of files, registry entries and even a hidden running service!
The McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool (MCPR.exe) can be found here!
EDIT: Another link with working dl fixed. The PCWorld-link, which links to McAfee stopped working. Evern trying to get the tool directly on McAfee’s website stopped working.
New link works as of now, if it also would stop working just do a search on Google for “MCPR.exe”tell me ’bout it, i even had a thread on the woes I had killing McAfee, plus I’ve still got a load of McAfee releated files on my drive that I cannot delete as they are being ‘used’
thanks for the link, i’ll be runing this app tonight.Since I’m waiting for little Sammy – is there any way to prevent McAfee installation on first start-up?
We have a site-license for McAfee Enterprise which I will be installing anyway…The mcaffee software is a part of the xp image on the hard drive so unfortunately you cannot start without it.
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The McAfee Consumer Products Removal tool (MCPR.exe) can be found here!
[/quote1228932528]That PCWorld link wouldn’t work for me for some reason, here ia a direct link to the tool:
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS100507Big thanks for the link, I was still getting annoying reminder messages even though I thought I had removed it!
Pugrider
The link wouldn’t work for me either, but I don’t have mcafee installed, maybe it checks first before d/loading ?
no matter, the new link works fine.
..or you could just reinstall XP from scratch from the XP disk, then elect to install just the drivers from the Samsung apps disk.
Update: After doing this removal I noticed a significant change in battery life, this was the last modification I did on my system so my guess is that this can be it. Keep a look-out for this and please tell if you notice the same thing.
The download-link first posted stopped working, post edited with new download link that I have checked works.
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After doing this removal I noticed a significant change in battery life…
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For better or worse?For the better, much better, see this thread
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After doing this removal I noticed a significant change in battery life…
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For better or worse?
[/quote1228952771]What a load of cr@p is McAfee. I ran it, and i think i got 50meg more space on my C drive. Thats just fantastic! Also, i got 15 min more on my battery 🙂
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