I needed to update Windows, but the updater told me of a conflict with McAfee Endpoint Security
(provided by my uni, so the corporate version, I guess). I tried to uninstall that but failed completely,
it just wouldn't uninstall. Eventually I tried Windows Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter
which happily reported back that it succeeded uninstalling all components of McAfee. However,
on restart I discovered that McAfee was still running, it just disappeared from the list of installed
programs.
What's worse, now whenever I click on file explorer or try to run command prompt as administrator,
this immediately causes a little Windows Installer window to pop up with "Preparing to install" in it
and this freezes all other functions. Whether this fails after a long while or whether I interrupt it,
this behavior restarts right away just as soon as I try to hit file explorer or command prompt (works
in the usual regime, but not as admin). It also starts by itself sometimes. Starting the computer
in the safe mode does not help either--same behavior.
Would appreciate a good advice--I am at the end of my tether. Need this HP laptop for work
from home.