I have McAfee Virus on my Dell laptop, it came preinstalled w/a free 90 subscription. Now that the subscription is cancelled/expired, I am unable to uninstall! It still runs on my desktop tray, not that its doing anything I can tell. I have to shut it down every time I log on. When I go to Add/Delete programs, it starts the uninstall progress, then an error comes up "There was an error in unstalling McAfee Virus" and I have no choice but to cancel. Any suggestions? I have another virus service installed now.
2006-09-11 05:11:07 · 8 answers · asked by fizzysmile 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Go to your Start button in the left hand corner of your computer screen.. left click on it .. you will see a list .. chose : Run .. click on that and type in : msconfig and hit the return button. It will bring up a box with tabs on it .. go to the tab at the far most right .. the first tab on the right hand side .. click on that .. you will see a lot of small boxes with "check marks" in them .. look down the list very carefully .. everytime you see something that has McAfee in it .. click on that little box and uncheck it. That should stop it from starting up in your system tray. Good Luck ! :)
2006-09-11 05:17:44 · answer #1 · answered by tysavage2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
may be the anti virus pgm was not properly installed in the first place.
its a new laptop then...
contact dell service center...
u can also manually delete the program & then delete the entry from the registry....
but that would be a bit risky as this is an antivirus program.
so better contact service center.
2006-09-11 05:19:50 · answer #2 · answered by da_great_viper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search for the program directory and delete it. then search for additional file in the start menu program and desktop, delete them all. Then remove the running program from running task tray. It will never bother you again.
2006-09-11 05:18:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact mcafee support
2006-09-11 05:15:15 · answer #4 · answered by ○Freeman○ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it refuses to uninstal simply save all ur documents in a file and back up that file in ur HARD DISK then reformat the laptop.
2006-09-11 05:19:36 · answer #5 · answered by Peace G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would open START and the Search look for anything MacAfee and delete it all from there.
2006-09-11 05:19:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reinstall it from the disc, then uninstall it from the disc.
2006-09-11 05:17:24 · answer #7 · answered by shipman824 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go to your add and remove programs and remove it
2006-09-11 05:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by jvg49er 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋