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Old February 18th 14, 06:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?

--

Dennis
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Old February 18th 14, 08:19 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Jeff Layman
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 18/02/2014 17:14, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?

Win7's Search can be a bit iffy. I would download and try "Everything".
It is very fast and if McUicnt.exe is on your HD it will find it.
http://www.voidtools.com/

--

Jeff
  #3  
Old February 18th 14, 09:00 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ron
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache
  #4  
Old February 18th 14, 09:13 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


Well, we know how it came in :-) Came with an Adobe Flash update.

https://community.mcafee.com/thread/...art=0&tstart=0

I would take a look with Autoruns, and see if anything with "MC"
in the name, is listed in there. It could be that a Startup item
"fixes" all the changes you're trying to make, on a reboot :-)

Autoruns
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb963902

The McAfee cleaner is supposed to remove stuff, but perhaps
you were supposed to use Programs and Features, to remove it
from there first. (More than one item might be present
in Programs and features.)

Paul
  #5  
Old February 18th 14, 09:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the two
keys with regedit and restarting the PC.

--

Dennis
  #6  
Old February 18th 14, 10:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ron
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 2/18/2014 3:26 PM, Dennis wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the two
keys with regedit and restarting the PC.


I've used the tool that you used before and it didn't work but this one
did. Worth a shot if it is just a notification icon and not something on
the computer.
  #7  
Old February 18th 14, 11:43 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:19:11 +0000, Jeff Layman
opined:

On 18/02/2014 17:14, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?

Win7's Search can be a bit iffy. I would download and try "Everything".
It is very fast and if McUicnt.exe is on your HD it will find it.
http://www.voidtools.com/


I tried "Everything". No McUicnt.exe found.

--

Dennis
  #8  
Old February 18th 14, 11:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:01:04 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 3:26 PM, Dennis wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the two
keys with regedit and restarting the PC.


I've used the tool that you used before and it didn't work but this one
did. Worth a shot if it is just a notification icon and not something on
the computer.


OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

--

Dennis
  #9  
Old February 19th 14, 12:35 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:01:04 -0500, Ron opined:


On 2/18/2014 3:26 PM, Dennis wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron
opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I
wanted a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions
to uninstall it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee
cleaner prog to remove any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I
successfully installed another antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ...
meaning that when I click Customize it is listed along side
everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as
soon get rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but
after a restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up
empty. (I hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and
may be unfamiliar with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache

I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the
two keys with regedit and restarting the PC.


I've used the tool that you used before and it didn't work but this
one did. Worth a shot if it is just a notification icon and not
something on the computer.


OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?


When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart it
after?

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  #10  
Old February 19th 14, 12:53 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:35:55 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:01:04 -0500, Ron opined:


On 2/18/2014 3:26 PM, Dennis wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron
opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I
wanted a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions
to uninstall it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee
cleaner prog to remove any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I
successfully installed another antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ...
meaning that when I click Customize it is listed along side
everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as
soon get rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but
after a restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up
empty. (I hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and
may be unfamiliar with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache

I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the
two keys with regedit and restarting the PC.


I've used the tool that you used before and it didn't work but this
one did. Worth a shot if it is just a notification icon and not
something on the computer.


OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?


When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart it
after?


No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?

--

Dennis
  #11  
Old February 19th 14, 01:48 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?


When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart it
after?


No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?


Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual instructions
duplicate the bat file's actions.

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  #12  
Old February 19th 14, 02:52 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:03 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart it
after?


No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?


Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual instructions
duplicate the bat file's actions.


Ron pointed me to...

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache

.... but I didn't see any "manual instructions". Maybe I'm going blind,
but could you please point me to the place on the page where you see
this?

--

Dennis
  #13  
Old February 19th 14, 03:39 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:03 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:


On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work
when manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart
it after?


No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?


Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual instructions
duplicate the bat file's actions.


Ron pointed me to...


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


... but I didn't see any "manual instructions". Maybe I'm going
blind, but could you please point me to the place on the page where
you see this?


The first paragraph. The instructions are abbreviated.

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  #14  
Old February 19th 14, 04:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dennis
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:03 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:


On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work
when manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and restart
it after?

No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?

Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual instructions
duplicate the bat file's actions.


Ron pointed me to...


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


... but I didn't see any "manual instructions". Maybe I'm going
blind, but could you please point me to the place on the page where
you see this?


The first paragraph. The instructions are abbreviated.


Well, I still don't understand why it doesn't work the other way. You
mention a "conflict", but I didn't see that word anywhere on that web
page. I guess I'll just have to settle for it working ... without a
clear explanation of why a reboot after the regedit doesn't behave the
same way.

Thanks all for your help.

--

Dennis
  #15  
Old February 19th 14, 07:16 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Tony
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

You got McPigged!

Dennis wrote:

I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?

--

Dennis


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