Thanks for replying, i have tried this but it will not remove icons in the customise - notification area icon screen. How the hell do you remove icons from there.
i have tried this but it will not remove icons in the customise - notification area icon screen.
How the hell do you remove icons from there.
I'd advise trying CCleaner - which is FREEware :emotion-55:
It's an absolutely invaluable program (one which quite a few forum members use) - not only for getting rid of junk files on your system, but its registry tool will find invalid entries, and get rid of them!
I suspect it's invalid registry entries which are causing the McAfee icon to keep being displayed in the taskbar, so I suggest you use it's registry tool first, to check for problems?
Don't worry about making changes to the registry!
When you choose to 'delete' any registry problems it finds when the scan is finished, it always asks if you want to "backup the registry first?".
It goes without saying that you should always do so, such that you can then 'restore' the registry if necessary.
But to help ease your mind... I've been using CCleaner at least twice a week for... longer than I care to remember, and it's never caused me a single problem, either by deleting files it shouldn't have, or deleting registry entries it shouldn't have :emotion-11:
So give it a go, and it'll hopefully solve the problem - after which you can run it's standard system scan.
You might be pleasantly surprised by how much space it can recover, simply by getting rid of 'junk' files/invalid shortcuts etc.
When my eldest son ran it for the first time - after I'd suggested it to him, it found over 12GB he could safely get rid of! 12GB :emotion-3:
Quite a lot of that was due to the number of system restore points he had on his laptop.
There were undoubtedly also a number of [what should've been] 'temporary' files still lurking around as well, from when he'd re-installed Vista?
Whatever... it just helps illustrate the potential hard drive space it can help you recover :emotion-21:
ccleaner registry tool does not remove mcagent.exe from the taskbar. It is still there after selecting 'customize'.
Uninstalling Dell's McAfee program does not get rid of this. A search on the computer does not find 'mcagent.exe', so I don't know where it resides, or if it is indeed gone, why the taskbar still lists it.
C3PO5
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January 27th, 2010 19:00
Hi
Go here and download the removal tool for mcafee http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507 read all steps !
Good Luck
mark8par
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January 28th, 2010 10:00
Thanks for replying, i have tried this but it will not remove icons in the customise - notification area icon screen. How the hell do you remove icons from there.
C3PO5
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January 28th, 2010 12:00
Hi
If someone can not help you , you have to call mcafee support and have them help you .
Sorry i can not help with the problem you have .
Good Luck
notebookreparat
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January 28th, 2010 12:00
Try malwarebytes. It works perfectly.
TheRealFireblad
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January 29th, 2010 03:00
I'd advise trying CCleaner - which is FREEware :emotion-55:
It's an absolutely invaluable program (one which quite a few forum members use) - not only for getting rid of junk files on your system, but its registry tool will find invalid entries, and get rid of them!
I suspect it's invalid registry entries which are causing the McAfee icon to keep being displayed in the taskbar, so I suggest you use it's registry tool first, to check for problems?
Don't worry about making changes to the registry!
When you choose to 'delete' any registry problems it finds when the scan is finished, it always asks if you want to "backup the registry first?".
It goes without saying that you should always do so, such that you can then 'restore' the registry if necessary.
But to help ease your mind... I've been using CCleaner at least twice a week for... longer than I care to remember, and it's never caused me a single problem, either by deleting files it shouldn't have, or deleting registry entries it shouldn't have :emotion-11:
So give it a go, and it'll hopefully solve the problem - after which you can run it's standard system scan.
You might be pleasantly surprised by how much space it can recover, simply by getting rid of 'junk' files/invalid shortcuts etc.
When my eldest son ran it for the first time - after I'd suggested it to him, it found over 12GB he could safely get rid of! 12GB :emotion-3:
Quite a lot of that was due to the number of system restore points he had on his laptop.
There were undoubtedly also a number of [what should've been] 'temporary' files still lurking around as well, from when he'd re-installed Vista?
Whatever... it just helps illustrate the potential hard drive space it can help you recover :emotion-21:
gergev
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November 3rd, 2010 07:00
ccleaner registry tool does not remove mcagent.exe from the taskbar. It is still there after selecting 'customize'.
Uninstalling Dell's McAfee program does not get rid of this. A search on the computer does not find 'mcagent.exe', so I don't know where it resides, or if it is indeed gone, why the taskbar still lists it.