Mcafee Installation Error: You Must Restart Your Computer

When you are installing McAfee products on your computer when you get a message, “You must restart your computer before installing McAfee Products”. Why do you get this message? This message comes up because there are some traces from the older version of the McAfee product.

McAfee Restart Error

You can solve this problem with the help of below steps:

A) Try to search a folder or a file named “$McReboot”. You can find this file at the below location, if you find it there, delete it.
1. “C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu”
2. “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu”
3. “C:\Documents and Setting\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup”There is no need to Reboot the computer, Simply re-install the McAfee Software.

B) Open Registry Editor by typing “regedit” in “run” box and navigate to…
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
If there is a value available which name is “UninstRebootRequired” then delete it.

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