Uninstall your McAfee Antivirus protection software

Windows 10 has undoubtedly been one of the most demanded operating systems in the market ever since its inception. It was designed and developed by the IT giant “Microsoft”, and it sure comes with a range of extended features and a ramped up experience for users. Windows 10 is highly compatible with McAfee Antivirus to safeguard the data on your PC or Laptop, but it comes with some of its limitations. McAfee is one of the many trial wares that come with OEM installation of Windows 10. 

While some may want to install the McAfee Antivirus, many others might wish not to have it installed in the first place, and eager to know how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus and completely remove this Internet Security platform from their PCs. Pop-ups will keep coming on your screen as a reminder for renewal of your subscription plan. It will not let you enable the inbuilt windows defender security, therefore, slows down your whole system and leave it vulnerable to virus attacks.

The Intel owns McAfee Antivirus and therefore almost on all OEM machines using Intel chip, you will see McAfee Security software installed. It may be an excellent tool to remove malware, but it turns out to be a great annoyance once the trial period is expanded, similar to other trial wares. If you wish to keep it installed, then it should not bother you much – all you need is to pay for the license. However, if you’ve made up your mind to uninstall McAfee Total Protection App from your PC, then it could give you a slight headache.

Although one can draw his or her own conclusion about why you should remove McAfee Antivirus and install a free antivirus on your system.
There are several reasons to McAfee uninstall Antivirus. Maybe it’s because the trial version of this Antivirus security is preinstalled when the customer purchases the PC or it’s because the user wants to install another antivirus system. I am also amazed to know that several McAfee products are vulnerable to severe virus attacks. They disable them so they can wreak havoc on your systems. Whatever there could be a couple of more reasons to support the move to uninstall McAfee, but that is a discussion of another time.

Below is shown a systematic way of how to uninstall McAfee Internet security system from your PC or laptop.

In many cases, you can simply remove McAfee Antivirus software via Control panel > Apps and features applet, but it can be considered a highly inaccurate and unsuccessful process as it leaves a plethora of junk files and registry behind.

Step 1. Click on the windows logo at the bottom left corner of your PC

Step 2. Click on the Control panel

Step 3. Double-click on Add or Remove programs

Step 4. Scroll down to McAfee Antivirus and click on Change/Remove

Step 5. Click “yes” on the warning message on the left to confirm the uninstallation.

Step 6. The removal process begins shortly and later, it will ask you to reboot the system after the removal is completed.

Step 7. After rebooting the system, McAfee should be removed from your system.