Microsoft Security Essentials

How to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials from your PC

Microsoft Security Essentials is a Windows application. Read below about how to uninstall it from your PC. It is produced by Microsoft Corporation. Take a look here where you can get more info on Microsoft Corporation. Please follow http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=154511&mkt=en-us if you want to read more on Microsoft Security Essentials on Microsoft Corporation's website. Microsoft Security Essentials is usually set up in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials directory, but this location may differ a lot depending on the user's option when installing the application. The full command line for uninstalling Microsoft Security Essentials is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\setup.exe /x. Note that if you will type this command in Start / Run Note you may get a notification for administrator rights. msseces.exe is the programs's main file and it takes around 1.31 MB (1378528 bytes) on disk.

Microsoft Security Essentials contains of the executables below. They take 4.02 MB (4213944 bytes) on disk.

• MpCmdRun.exe (238.24 KB)
• MsMpEng.exe (16.99 KB)
• msseces.exe (1.31 MB)
• setup.exe (870.94 KB)
• Update.exe (771.85 KB)

This info is about Microsoft Security Essentials version 1.0.1501.0 only. For more Microsoft Security Essentials versions please click below:

• 4.5.216.0
• 4.6.305.0
• 4.4.304.0
• 4.3.215.0
• 4.1.522.0
• 1.0.2498.0
• 2.1.1116.0
• 2.0.657.0
• 4.3.219.0
• 4.0.1526.0
• 4.3.216.0
• 4.2.223.1
• 2.0.719.0
• 4.0.1538.0
• 1.0.1961.0
• 1.0.1759.0
• 4.0.1111.0
• 1.0.1611.0
• 1.0.1963.0
• 4.7.205.0
• 4.8.201.0
• 2.0.375.0
• 1.0.1500.0
• 4.5
• 1.0.1959.0
• 4.8.204.0
• 4.0.1512.0
• 1.0.1407.0
• 4.0
• 2.0.522.0
• 4.9.218.0
• 4.5.218.0
• 4.10.205.0
• 4.10.209.0
• 1.0.2140.0
• 4.0.1110.0

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A way to delete Microsoft Security Essentials from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Microsoft Security Essentials is an application offered by Microsoft Corporation. Frequently, users decide to remove it. Sometimes this can be easier said than done because doing this manually takes some skill regarding Windows internal functioning. The best QUICK practice to remove Microsoft Security Essentials is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows PC, add it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and all around tool to clean your Windows PC.

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• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's interface and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of utilities.

3. Click on the General Tools button


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs feature


5. All the programs existing on your computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find Microsoft Security Essentials or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Microsoft Security Essentials". The Microsoft Security Essentials app will be found automatically. Notice that after you select Microsoft Security Essentials in the list of applications, some information regarding the program is shown to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have regarding Microsoft Security Essentials, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the program you want to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Microsoft Security Essentials:

• The web site of the program is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=154511&mkt=en-us
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\setup.exe /x

7. Click the Uninstall button. A confirmation dialog will appear. Confirm the removal by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials.


8. After uninstalling Microsoft Security Essentials, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Microsoft Security Essentials that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Microsoft Security Essentials using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no Windows registry items, files or directories are left behind on your PC.

Your Windows system will remain clean, speedy and ready to run without errors or problems.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove Microsoft Security Essentials by Microsoft Corporation from your PC, we are not saying that Microsoft Security Essentials by Microsoft Corporation is not a good software application. This page simply contains detailed info on how to remove Microsoft Security Essentials supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.