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A guide to uninstall Sophos Home from your PC

This page is about Sophos Home for Windows. Below you can find details on how to uninstall it from your computer. The Windows release was created by Sophos Ltd. You can read more on Sophos Ltd or check for application updates here. Click on to get more info about Sophos Home on Sophos Ltd's website. The program is usually placed in the C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent folder. Keep in mind that this path can vary being determined by the user's choice. You can remove Sophos Home by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe. Note that you might receive a notification for admin rights. The application's main executable file is named uninstallgui.exe and it has a size of 601.50 KB (615936 bytes).

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

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


This data is about Sophos Home version 1.1.4 only. You can find below a few links to other Sophos Home releases:

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

You should delete the folders below after you uninstall Sophos Home:
  • C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent

Usually, the following files remain on disk:
  • 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\Sophos Home Uninstall 2018_04_12_10_28_14Z.log

Registry keys:
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sophos\Home
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Sophos Endpoint Agent


How to remove Sophos Home with Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Sophos Home is an application by Sophos Ltd. Sometimes, computer users want to remove this program. Sometimes this can be troublesome because deleting this manually requires some skill regarding removing Windows applications by hand. The best SIMPLE practice to remove Sophos Home is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO already installed on your Windows PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very potent uninstaller and general tool to clean your Windows system.

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  • navigate to Download Link
  • download the program by pressing the DOWNLOAD NOW button
  • set up Advanced Uninstaller PRO
2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire Advanced Uninstaller PRO's interface and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good Windows tool.

3. Press the General Tools category
Go to General Tools


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button
Go to Uninstall Programs


5. All the applications installed on the PC will be shown to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Sophos Home or simply activate the Search feature and type in "Sophos Home". If it is installed on your PC the Sophos Home application will be found automatically. When you select Sophos Home in the list , the following information about the program is available to you:


  • Star rating (in the left lower corner). This tells you the opinion other users have about Sophos Home, ranging from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
  • Reviews by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
  • Details about the application you want to uninstall, by pressing the Properties button.
For instance you can see that for Sophos Home:





  • The web site of the application is: http://www.sophos.com
  • The uninstall string is: C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Endpoint Agent\uninstallgui.exe
7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will come up. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then uninstall Sophos Home.
Uninstall Sophos Home


8. After uninstalling Sophos Home, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to start the cleanup. All the items of Sophos Home which have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By removing Sophos Home using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you can be sure that no Windows registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

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



Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to remove Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd from your computer, nor are we saying that Sophos Home by Sophos Ltd is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to remove Sophos Home in case you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that other software left behind and Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.

2017-07-07 / Written by Dan Armano for Advanced Uninstaller PRO

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Last update on: 2017-07-07 15:01:00.303