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We usually do this when we&#8217;re unable to remove McAfee products.<\/p>\n<p>Enter safe mode on your computer<\/p>\n<p>Open an elevated command promt and type the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>REG ADD \"HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SafeBoot\\Minimal\\MSIServer\" \/VE \/T REG_SZ \/F \/D \"Service\"<\/pre>\n<p>Press Enter and then type:<\/p>\n<pre>Net start MSIServer<\/pre>\n<p>Press Enter again.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, you can now uninstall programs in safe mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe mode, by default does not enable, or have a service running to allow the windows installer to run.\u00a0 To combat this and allow us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[51,50,52,53],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-command-line-cli","category-mcafee-epo","tag-add-remove-programs","tag-msiserver","tag-programs-and-features","tag-uninstall-in-safe-mode"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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