Sophos Home

A guide to uninstall Sophos Home from your system

This web page contains thorough information on how to remove Sophos Home for Windows. It is developed by Sophos Ltd. More info about Sophos Ltd can be seen here. Click on http://www.sophos.com to get more facts about Sophos Home on Sophos Ltd's website. The application is often found in the C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent folder (same installation drive as Windows). The full uninstall command line for Sophos Home is C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe. The program's main executable file is named uninstallgui.exe and its approximative size is 601.50 KB (615936 bytes).

Sophos Home is comprised of the following executables which occupy 1.20 MB (1253224 bytes) on disk:

• uninstallcli.exe (622.35 KB)
• uninstallgui.exe (601.50 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 1.2.8 of Sophos Home. You can find below info on other application versions of Sophos Home:

• 1.2.9
• 1.
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.2
• 1.1.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.3
• 1.1.9
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.1
• 1.1.4

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Some files and registry entries are regularly left behind when you remove Sophos Home.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall Sophos Home from your computer:

• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent

Check for and delete the following files from your disk when you uninstall Sophos Home:

• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\deleter.dll
• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\ResEng.dll
• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallcli.exe
• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallcore.dll
• C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Temp\630d3ce2-5f03-4a16-84fe-d3afc6336e52\savxp\CommonAppData\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\Config\factory.home.xml

Registry that is not removed:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sophos\Home
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\31B47156D1BC8A54B856968FA7AAFABE
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Sophos Endpoint Agent
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sophos\Home

Open regedit.exe to remove the registry values below from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\31B47156D1BC8A54B856968FA7AAFABE\ProductName

A way to uninstall Sophos Home using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Home is a program marketed by the software company Sophos Ltd. Sometimes, computer users try to uninstall it. Sometimes this is efortful because doing this manually takes some knowledge related to Windows program uninstallation. One of the best SIMPLE solution to uninstall Sophos Home 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, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful uninstaller and general utility to take care of your Windows PC.

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• visit Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good PC management program.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs tool


5. A list of the applications installed on the PC will be made available to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Sophos Home or simply click the Search field and type in "Sophos Home". If it is installed on your PC the Sophos Home program will be found automatically. Notice that when you click Sophos Home in the list , the following information about the application is shown to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other people have about Sophos Home, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Press the Read reviews button.
• Technical information about the program you are about to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

For example you can see that for Sophos Home:

• The web site of the program is: http://www.sophos.com
• The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing the Uninstall button. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Sophos Home.


8. After uninstalling Sophos Home, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will offer to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items that belong Sophos Home that have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Sophos Home with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

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

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to remove Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd from your computer, we are not saying that Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd is not a good application for your PC. This page only contains detailed info on how to remove Sophos Home in case you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.