How to Uninstall Comodo Firewall And Associated Programs Thoroughly
Comodo Firewall is a security program developed by Comodo, the installation of Comodo Firewall comes with several components, which makes its uninstall a bit of complicated, this article will walk you through the entire uninstall process and teach you how to uninstall Comodo Firewall completely to avoid hard drive and registry redundance.
Comodo Firewall components review
Before starting the removal, you should know that beside Comodo Firewall, two associated programs will be installed in your computer along with the Comodo Firewall installation, including:
- Comodo Dragon – a self – develop browser by Comodo
- Comodo Geekbuddy – COMODO tech support online chat client
These two program would remain in the system even you uninstall the main program of Comodo Firewall. In order to completely uninstall Comodo Firewall, these two application should be removed as well. You may follow the below steps
Uninstall Comodo Firewall manually
- Close Comodo Firewall, right click the program icon in the system tray and click Exit in the appear menu.
- Click YES to continue.
- Go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove program
- Select Comodo Firewall and click Remove button.
- You will then receive pop-up message asking you ‘are you sure you want to remove Comodo Firewall from your computer?’ click Yes to confirm.
- Wait until the removal finish, the uninstall wizard will prompt you to restart the computer, click ‘No’, you may restart the computer later after finishing the removal of other Comodo Firewall components.
- Back to the Add/Remove program, highlight Comodo Dragon and click ‘Change/Remove’ button.
- If you have no intention to reinstall Comodo Firewall, check the ‘Remove user profile’ option and click Uninstall button.
- Click Finish button after the removal is done.
- Back to Add/Remove program list again, select GeekBuddy and click ‘Remov.
- Follow the instruction to finish the removal.
You may think that’s the end of the removal, actually using the default uninstaller from Add/Remove program is insufficient, there are still many leftovers inside the Windows registry that required you to manually delete them all.
Press Windows button and R key to open Run commend.
- Type in Regedit in the run commend box and press Enter to open Registry Editor.
- Go to File menu of registry editor, click Export to create a registry backup file. (if you are familiar with using registry editor, you may skip this step)
- Navigate the registry branch tree on the left side, find out the registry leftovers of Comodo Firewall and its components listed in the below screen shots, delete them all.
- Close registry editor when you finish the registry leftover removal, and then restart the computer to allow new change to take effect.
An easier way to uninstall Comodo Firewall completely
Beside the manual solution, you can choose Max Uninstaller to help you out. Max Uninstaller is a professionally designed program which is able to uninstall stubborn Windows application/program easily and completely without going through the above complicated process. You can watch the below video demonstration of how Max Uninstaller work to uninstall Comodo Firewall and its components.
Removal steps
- Download Max Uninstaller and install it in your computer with ease.
- Launch MU by double clicking the desktop icon.
- Select Comodo Firewall in program list and click ‘Run Analysis’ button.
- After the components analysis, click ‘Complete Uninstall’to start the standard removal.
- Close the pop-up website once the standard removal is finished.
- Click ‘Scan Leftovers’ button to conduct a full scan on your computer for leftovers of Comodo Firewall.
- Click ‘Delete Leftovers’and Max Uninstaller will remove all the leftovers it found.
- Click OK in the pop-up message to finish the removal.
- repeat the above steps to Uninstall Comodo Dragon and Geekbuddy.