Sunday, May 25, 2014

How to Uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition?

“Had installed FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition earlier and uninstalled afterwards, but still cannot install other antivirus program which just prompts you to remove FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition; The attached uninstall progress doesn’t work and also cannot find the FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition on Control Panel…”---By numerous PC users.
Have you ever met such similar difficulties while you are uninstalling FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition? FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition is a well known antivirus program that has got a high reputation among many computer users, millions of broadband customer use its services to protect their computers from outside attackers. But due to some reasons, many people need to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionfrom their computers, and the difficulty to totally uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition has made some people think that it is an impossible mission.

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Why is it hard to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition

Like other antivirus programs such as Password PocketBook 1.6,Pass2Go 6.7.8,4UOnly 1.2.8,Password Protect 3.6.1,PasswordNow Excel Recovery Tool 4.0.0.1,PasswordNow Access Recovery Tool 4.0.0.1,FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition can’t be uninstalled easily and completely by the Windows Add/Remove Programs. You will definetly find that it would wast your much time to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition manually. If you decide to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition by asking the technicians in PC store, it is really not a good idea for you to spend the money for it. It is worthless! Let me tell you why it is so hard to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition. Two main reasons: 1. The original designer of FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition makes it so difficult to be uninstalled in order to ask their customer keep using the software on the PC. You know, almost every application publisher will has his own business purpose. 2. Most of the PC users are not good at computer skill. They can handle the simple problems but not including the registry issue. To uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition completely, you need to clean the leftover, related registry keys and registry entries of it, that is the most difficul part of uninstalling FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition. If you delete the wrong folder in system disk or important registry list, you would make your PC system crash.

Why do you want to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition?

  • FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition makes your computer perform very slowly.
  • FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition has been expired on your PC.
  • Some of its essential files or processes are deleted by accident
  • It is not compatible with your computer system or some other programs
  • It occupies too much system space of your PC.
  • You want to use other antivirus programs then have to uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition at first.

Step by step to manually uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition

Uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition by its attached uninstall program


  1. Go to the install folder of FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.
  2. Find out the uninstall process and activate it.
  3. Follow the prompt to finish the removing process.

Theoretically, the FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition removal could be achieved after finishing the last removing step, but the fact is just not the case, you still can find some stubborn files on it and not allow you to manually delete, which actually means the unsuccessful uninstallation.

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Uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition by Windows Add/Remove Programs

1. Open Task Manager, stop FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition from running.
2. Click on the Start Menu button and then click on the Control Panel.
3. Click the Windows Add/Remove program.
4. A list of programs installed will be populated, this may take a bit of time.

5. In this list please find FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition and select it by left-clicking once on it.

6. Then click on the Uninstall button to start the uninstall process for FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition. A wizard should then open, which will guide you through the rest of the uninstall.

Note: When finishing the above four steps, you still need to do an additional job so that the complete removal can be achieve, that is to manually clean out those stubborn leftovers which include its install files and registry entries. But not all the users has the ability to fulfill the final manual removal process, because it is a high risky job do any modification in the Registry Editor which is a crucial part for the computer system, any removal error for those registry entries will probably cause the blue screen error or permanent system crash.

Tips: To uninstall FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition compeltely, you still need to delete the related registry entries carfully.

We provide you with the guides but it is not recommended.
Go to registry editor to get rid of FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition registry keys and values: 
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition)
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition)
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\eg ui)

Click on the START menu again and get in the Control Panel and then Folder Options then View and choose Show Hidden Files and Folders, delete the following folders: 

(C:\Program Files\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition )
(C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition)
(C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition)

FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition Registry Details
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F4F5B989-1ACC-438A-BFC9-DA15FCC49CB4} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\picasa HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition \shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\shell\open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\shell\open\command HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.autoplay HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.autoplay\shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.autoplay\shell\import HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.autoplay\shell\import\command HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\url protocol HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition.autoplay\defaulticon HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\google\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition \runtime\apppath HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\default_search_url HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\search bar HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\main\search page HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\search\default_search_url HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\search\searchassistant HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\searchurl\provider HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\search assistant\defaultsearchurl HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\eventhandlersdefaultselection\showpicturesonarrival HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\internet explorer\version vector\ FortiClient Endpoint Security Free EditionHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\lasttracefailure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\tracesprocessed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows nt\CurrentVersion\prefetcher\tracessuccessful HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival\action HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival\defaulticon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival\invokeprogid HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival\invokeverb HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\autoplayhandlers\handlers\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Editionimportpicturesonarrival\provider HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\DisplayName HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\DisplayVersion HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\HelpLink HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\InstallLocation HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\Publisher HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\UninstallString HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\URLInfoAbout HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\VersionMajor HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition\VersionMinor

Uninstall errors you may encounter

Sometimes, you may encounter some error messages during the uninstalling procession. It means some of the files of this application are missing or you don't have the permission to uninstall it manually.



In this case, you should use some third party uninstall tools to force uninstall programs you don't need any more. You can avoid such uninstall error message and finish the removal powerfully.

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Step1: Free Download FortiClient Endpoint Security Free Edition Uninstaller, install and run it.

Step2: Select the program you want to uninstall and click the “Uninstall” button.

Step3: Follow the uninstall wizard to completely uninstall the program.
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