Your laptop comes with McAfee so you can erase it completely

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In order to reduce costs, or rather, earn more money with each sale, OEM and laptop manufacturers usually install a series of default applications with Windows 10.

These applications are often unnecessary, and even unwanted, and therefore, one of the first things we usually do when we first use an OEM computer that we have purchased is to uninstall all these applications. Many of them do not put impediments and we can erase them with relative ease. However, others can be somewhat complicated to erase, such as McAfee, one of the antivirus that usually comes preinstalled on computers.

McAfee is one of the best known antivirus that we can find on the network. This antivirus is owned by TPG and Intel and, according to the latest AV-Test tests, it is one of the best antivirus that we can install on our PC. The problem with this antivirus is that, in addition to giving problems with Windows 10 updates, it is paid, and although we usually have a few months of testing when we buy the laptop, after that time the antivirus is deactivated, leaving our PC in danger.

If our laptop has Windows 10, the best antivirus we can install, without a doubt, is Windows Defender. Microsoft's antivirus is completely free and today is one of the highest marks in security tests. However, while McAfee is installed on the computer, we will not be able to install enable this other antivirus. Even if it is expired and deactivated.

Therefore, below we will explain how to completely uninstall McAfee from any laptop or PC with Windows 10. So we can install and use any antivirus without problems and improve PC performance by removing Intel bloatware.

How to remove McAfee from our PC

Uninstall McAfee from the Settings menu

This antivirus can be uninstalled from Windows 10 like any other application. That is, we can go to the Windows 10 Settings section, go to the "Applications" section and, under "Applications and features" we look for the McAfee entry, like any other application.

From here we will use the "Uninstall" option to launch your own uninstaller. We just have to follow the wizard to the end and restart the computer. When you restart the computer, we must verify that there are no traces left (such as the WebAdvisor) to ensure that this antivirus, and all its components, have been deleted from the PC.

Uninstall it from the start menu

Another faster way to uninstall this antivirus is to do it from the start menu. Like all applications, this antivirus creates its own entry at startup. If we right click on it we can see different options. The "Uninstall" option will allow us to delete the antivirus directly from here.

When the wizard finishes we will have to restart the computer and that's it. This antivirus will no longer be installed on our computer. Of course, we must check if there are other McAfee applications in the start menu (such as File Lock) to delete them in the same way if necessary.

Use McAfee Removal Tool

Finally, if the previous methods resist us, or we simply want to make sure that there is no trace of this antivirus once it is removed from the computer, the best thing we can do is use the McAfee tool itself to uninstall this antivirus.

Date update on 2019-10-15. Date published on 2019-10-15. Category: mcafee Author: Oscar olg Fuente: softzone