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Windows 7 or Vista Security Center still identifies old security software as installed. |
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| Even after uninstalling your Firewall or Security software, your Security Center still shows it as being installed, here are a few steps you may wish to try to get rid of the problem. |
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| 1) It could mean that it has left some remnants in your registry. |
| Try a freeware registry cleaner like CCleaner and see if it helps. |
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| Else : Open regedit, search for its keys and delete them. Lets say the product is named ABCAV product of XYZCO company, then do a Find / Find Next for both ABCAV and XYZCO, and delete such keys found. I am assuming that you do not have any other software of XYZCO company installed. |
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| Please back up the registry or create a system restore point, before touching the registry. |
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| Incidentally, here is Microsoft's take on Registry Cleaners. Should you use a registry cleaner? Read debate at TWC Forum. |
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| 2) If it doesn't help, it is quite possible that the problem may be resolved by re-starting the WMI repository. |
As mentioned here, elsewhere:
Click Start > Type CMD in search > Hit enter. From the results, rt-click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'. Type the following command: |
winmgmt /verifyrepository |
| If you get a message "WMI repository is consistent", run the following command: |
net stop winmgmt [Click Enter]
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [Click Enter]
ren repository repository.old [Click Enter]
net start winmgmt [Click Enter] |
| If you get a message "WMI repository is not consistent", run the following command: |
winmgmt /salvagerepository |
| This will perform a consistency check on the WMI repository and resolve the issue. |
| Restart your machine. |
| If you again get the following message instead:
winmgmt /salvagerepository is failed. |
| Ignore this message, and again run: |
winmgmt /salvagerepository |
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| Reboot. Hope this helps. |
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