Sophos Home

A guide to uninstall Sophos Home from your computer

This page is about Sophos Home for Windows. Here you can find details on how to remove it from your computer. It is written by Sophos Ltd. Go over here where you can read more on Sophos Ltd. Please follow http://www.sophos.com if you want to read more on Sophos Home on Sophos Ltd's website. Usually the Sophos Home program is placed in the C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent folder, depending on the user's option during setup. The full uninstall command line for Sophos Home is C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe. The program's main executable file occupies 648.20 KB (663760 bytes) on disk and is named uninstallgui.exe.

Sophos Home contains of the executables below. They take 1.29 MB (1352008 bytes) on disk.

• uninstallcli.exe (672.12 KB)
• uninstallgui.exe (648.20 KB)

The information on this page is only about version 1.2.9 of Sophos Home. You can find below a few links to other Sophos Home versions:

• 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
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.1
• 1.1.4

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Sophos Home has the habit of leaving behind some leftovers.

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

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

The files below were left behind on your disk when you remove 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

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the keys below:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\4473A6465925E7842964743DF55A53CF
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Sophos Endpoint Agent
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sophos\Home

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

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\4473A6465925E7842964743DF55A53CF\ProductName

A way to uninstall Sophos Home from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Home is an application released by the software company Sophos Ltd. Some users decide to remove it. This can be hard because removing this by hand requires some skill regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best EASY practice to remove 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 system, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and all around utility to optimize your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by pressing the green DOWNLOAD NOW button
• set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and wealth of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful system utility.

3. Press the General Tools category


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs button


5. A list of the programs installed on your computer will appear

6. Scroll the list of programs until you find Sophos Home or simply activate the Search field and type in "Sophos Home". If it is installed on your PC the Sophos Home app will be found very quickly. Notice that when you click Sophos Home in the list of apps, some data about the program is shown to you:

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

For instance 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 show up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove Sophos Home.


8. After uninstalling Sophos Home, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to go ahead with the cleanup. All the items of Sophos Home that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing Sophos Home using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your PC.

Your system will remain clean, speedy and ready to take on new tasks.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a piece of advice to uninstall Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd from your PC, nor are we saying that Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd is not a good application for your computer. This text simply contains detailed info on how to uninstall Sophos Home supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.