Deleting Registry Entries

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Steve

I am having trouble deleting any references to McAfee's
registry entries, specifically their firewall program. I
am trying to install SBC's HomePortal s/w and it will not
install because it sees McAfee Firewall some where. I
talked to SBC and they said is was something in the
registry. I have uninstalled McAfee, ran REGEDIT and
cleaned up the remaining files in the registry, per
McAfee's instructions, but there are a few other McAfee
entries that I can not delete, such as:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001
\enum\root\LEGACY_MCAFEE-FIREWALL.
plus a few others. I keep getting a pop up error window
that states:
Cannot delete LEGACY_MCAFEE_FIREWALL: error while
deleting key.

Any suggestions?

Steve
 
Only a suggestion...
Look in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class
for something related to McAfee. Usually I find something
there that will break the LEGACY entries to where a reboot
will clear them. The LEGACY entries are the problem. They
are dependant. Something else is running.
 
I couldn't find anything else relating to McAfee in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class.

Any other suggestions?
Steve
 
Steve wrote in
I am having trouble deleting any references to McAfee's
registry entries, specifically their firewall program. I
am trying to install SBC's HomePortal s/w and it will not
install because it sees McAfee Firewall some where. I
talked to SBC and they said is was something in the
registry. I have uninstalled McAfee, ran REGEDIT and
cleaned up the remaining files in the registry, per
McAfee's instructions, but there are a few other McAfee
entries that I can not delete, such as:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001
\enum\root\LEGACY_MCAFEE-FIREWALL.
plus a few others. I keep getting a pop up error window
that states:
Cannot delete LEGACY_MCAFEE_FIREWALL: error while
deleting key.
Click to expand...

Forget CS001 and just use CCS.
If there is no mcafee (or other-named mcafee stuff) in CCS or "run"
keys (or startup folders) after a reboot, then it's something else
causing the problems IMO.
 
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