Uninstall TrendMicro OfficeScan

This procedure work as of June 5th 2010

The problem:

When trying to uninstall TrendMico Office Scan you are prompted for a password.

Solution:

  • Start -> run and type MSCONFIG
  • Under services and uncheck TrendMicro Unauthorized Change Prevention Service
  • Restart the computer
  • Start -> run type Regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\Misc
  • Changing the AllowUninstall value to 1

Tags:

Saturday, June 5th, 2010 Software, Tech Support

4 Comments to Uninstall TrendMicro OfficeScan

JR
June 8, 2010

Followed the receipt, but was still not allowed to change the regkey setting. So ran regedt32 from a different computer and accessed the registry over the network. Voila!

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J.
July 25, 2010

Worked like a charm! I couldn’t make changes to my registry either, but this part worked perfectly,

•Start -> run and type MSCONFIG
•Under services and uncheck TrendMicro Unauthorized Change Prevention Service

Thanks!

nabil
July 15, 2011

I’m Verry Happy!!!!

Thank you very much for helping me and people :D

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