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<blockquote data-quote="AlexCa" data-source="post: 891375" data-attributes="member: 52267">Thank you for giving it a go.In those cases, if you already executed the dedicated uninstallers, it&#039;s generally safe to manually delete those leftovers, so that they don&#039;t show up when you run a search in a later time. I say &quot;generally&quot; here just to be safe. Because if you see that one of the folders can&#039;t be deleted, and has something like a &quot;mcafee.sys&quot; file inside (just a stupid example), you might need to re-run the dedicated uninstaller with Windows in safe-mode.What I&#039;ve found in my tests is that some uninstallers, in the process of doing their job, will themselves create and leave folders on the system. Others will still leave some harmless folders belonging to the antivirus behind.There is no right-click option to delete the detected folders because the purpose of the functionality is to inform the user about what products were installed in the past, so that he can run the specialized uninstallers. The specialized uninstaller will do a proper job at removing all leftovers (files, drivers, services, registry entries) and not only folders.If you right-click an entry, you&#039;ll have the option to open the folder in file explorer, to check its contents, and of course you can yourself delete the folder from there. But I really don&#039;t want to encourage or endorse manually deleting the folders (like I would if I had added a right-click &quot;Delete&quot; option). It&#039;s not what the search option is meant for, and, except in very few cases, it&#039;s a really awful option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AlexCa, post: 891375, member: 52267"] Thank you for giving it a go. In those cases, if you already executed the dedicated uninstallers, it's generally safe to manually delete those leftovers, so that they don't show up when you run a search in a later time. I say "generally" here just to be safe. Because if you see that one of the folders can't be deleted, and has something like a "mcafee.sys" file inside (just a stupid example), you might need to re-run the dedicated uninstaller with Windows in safe-mode. What I've found in my tests is that some uninstallers, in the process of doing their job, will themselves create and leave folders on the system. Others will still leave some harmless folders belonging to the antivirus behind. There is no right-click option to delete the detected folders because the purpose of the functionality is to inform the user about what products were installed in the past, so that he can run the specialized uninstallers. The specialized uninstaller will do a proper job at removing all leftovers (files, drivers, services, registry entries) and not only folders. If you right-click an entry, you'll have the option to open the folder in file explorer, to check its contents, and of course you can yourself delete the folder from there. But I really don't want to encourage or endorse manually deleting the folders (like I would if I had added a right-click "Delete" option). It's not what the search option is meant for, and, except in very few cases, it's a really awful option. [/QUOTE]

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