I deleted the McAffee program from my Windows 11 laptop. However, it's still appears in my start menu and there's still a folder in the program files. Is there a way I can completely remove these without doing any damage to my system?
I dislike and personally alarm by the nonstop constant intrusion of Microsoft windows back end hidden frequent updates that keep on disrupting personal PC users configurations they might have set as in the user may have set with regards to all sorts of things that directly impact not just my PC usage experience but also my wallet because I’ve heard countless horror stories of the less Sauvie PC users (much of the planet) they are certainly saving everything on OneDrive or suddenly they are subscribed to M365 etc. mcAfee is another one of those programs that seems to linger and keep on disrupting the users experience I have a state of 14 June HP elite book 13 inch laptop and the same story with some of HP‘s Volf security related stuff. I want none of that on my PC and I wanted to stay that way so here are my three short fire methods that consistently work. first, whenever I have a new PC or an existing PC, I never ever sign in with my Microsoft account because that absolutely prohibits me as a user to have administrator level privileges and it basically opens up a total gateway for nonstop inclusions and configuration disruptions directly deteriorating greatly my PC usage experience. I would ensure that I log out from my Microsoft account on my PC, and then login as administrator and always, repeat always default to administrator privileged login onto my personal PC. The admin level privilege actually opens up other settings which are otherwise inaccessible to the user by Microsoft as well as some third-party companies like McAfee to be able to personalize my computer and keep it that way no matter what windows updates arise.
This first one has to go hand-in-hand with the second one below. I am a ChatGPT plus subscriber and I’m sure other bigger AI technologies can do this, but I’m constantly asking ChatGPT to write me full power shell scripts to achieve my goals. I ask it to write me full power shell scripts for specific purposes and then all I have to do is copy the entire script from ChatGPT and paste it on my Windows PC‘s power shell window and run it to achieve my goal. needless to say you have to open power shell in administrator mode and assuming that you have indeed done number one above as in always logged in with administrator privileges and not logged into my Microsoft account on my Windows PC. has worked beautifully and needless to say there are 2 to 3 iterations between me and the ChatGPT while asking it to build these complex power shell scripts however after 2 to 3 iterations add the most four I have a pretty solid robust power shell script took for example permanently disabled window defender that annoying little thing that I hate and the windows firewall on my computer again these are all my personal preferences which cause all kinds of disruptions on my computer and prevent me from doing certain things and pop up these annoying windows etc. I did the same thing as in use a ChatGPT generated power shell script to erase every last Iota of McAfee from what I can see in the front end of my PC as well as anything back a few related in the hidden operating system files. The second method that goes along with the first step absolutely rules! again I’ve used power shell scripts to totally block this silly HP wolf security and it’s associated apps that kept on basically disrupting my work flow in deteriorating my usage experience.
Third and this is less reliable than the power shell script method, I always search for scripts that other people have posted on GitHub to achieve my goal. however I found that the ghetto method does not completely immunize as in it might completely eradicate McAfee trace from your computer however it will not prevent back and update updates to put McAfee back somewhere on your computer. This is not just a McAfee but other personal configurations of the windows operating system, my personal enablement or disablement of Windows firewall and defender and so on so forth.
In summary, if you do the first method in the second method, based on my personal experience you should have hundred percent success.
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This may help you
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4178910/guide-for-completely-removing-mcafee?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers
HTH.
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I dislike and personally alarm by the nonstop constant intrusion of Microsoft windows back end hidden frequent updates that keep on disrupting personal PC users configurations they might have set as in the user may have set with regards to all sorts of things that directly impact not just my PC usage experience but also my wallet because I’ve heard countless horror stories of the less Sauvie PC users (much of the planet) they are certainly saving everything on OneDrive or suddenly they are subscribed to M365 etc. mcAfee is another one of those programs that seems to linger and keep on disrupting the users experience I have a state of 14 June HP elite book 13 inch laptop and the same story with some of HP‘s Volf security related stuff. I want none of that on my PC and I wanted to stay that way so here are my three short fire methods that consistently work. first, whenever I have a new PC or an existing PC, I never ever sign in with my Microsoft account because that absolutely prohibits me as a user to have administrator level privileges and it basically opens up a total gateway for nonstop inclusions and configuration disruptions directly deteriorating greatly my PC usage experience. I would ensure that I log out from my Microsoft account on my PC, and then login as administrator and always, repeat always default to administrator privileged login onto my personal PC. The admin level privilege actually opens up other settings which are otherwise inaccessible to the user by Microsoft as well as some third-party companies like McAfee to be able to personalize my computer and keep it that way no matter what windows updates arise.
This first one has to go hand-in-hand with the second one below. I am a ChatGPT plus subscriber and I’m sure other bigger AI technologies can do this, but I’m constantly asking ChatGPT to write me full power shell scripts to achieve my goals. I ask it to write me full power shell scripts for specific purposes and then all I have to do is copy the entire script from ChatGPT and paste it on my Windows PC‘s power shell window and run it to achieve my goal. needless to say you have to open power shell in administrator mode and assuming that you have indeed done number one above as in always logged in with administrator privileges and not logged into my Microsoft account on my Windows PC. has worked beautifully and needless to say there are 2 to 3 iterations between me and the ChatGPT while asking it to build these complex power shell scripts however after 2 to 3 iterations add the most four I have a pretty solid robust power shell script took for example permanently disabled window defender that annoying little thing that I hate and the windows firewall on my computer again these are all my personal preferences which cause all kinds of disruptions on my computer and prevent me from doing certain things and pop up these annoying windows etc. I did the same thing as in use a ChatGPT generated power shell script to erase every last Iota of McAfee from what I can see in the front end of my PC as well as anything back a few related in the hidden operating system files. The second method that goes along with the first step absolutely rules! again I’ve used power shell scripts to totally block this silly HP wolf security and it’s associated apps that kept on basically disrupting my work flow in deteriorating my usage experience.
Third and this is less reliable than the power shell script method, I always search for scripts that other people have posted on GitHub to achieve my goal. however I found that the ghetto method does not completely immunize as in it might completely eradicate McAfee trace from your computer however it will not prevent back and update updates to put McAfee back somewhere on your computer. This is not just a McAfee but other personal configurations of the windows operating system, my personal enablement or disablement of Windows firewall and defender and so on so forth.
In summary, if you do the first method in the second method, based on my personal experience you should have hundred percent success.