I've Uninstalled Macrium Reflect

Belly · 14 Aug 2019 at 09:36

Could someone please advise me?

I've uninstalled Macrium Reflect as per their instructions:

https://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50112.aspx

Unfortunately there are still a number of traces of Macrium on my system. The ones giving me most concern are located at: C/Boot/Macrium which contains two files

1st. "Drivers" contains empty folders and one search paths.txt file.
2nd. "WA1OKfiles" contains many files and folders the size 250MB

If they weren't on the C Drive, I'd just delete them.

Would it be safe to delete these two files?

Thanks

pcfarrar · 14 Aug 2019 at 09:48

Re-install macrium then in the options remove the boot menu, then uninstall and the boot/macrium folder should be gone.

Belly · 14 Aug 2019 at 10:07

Thanks, from the link I gave I did tick the box "remove all generated.........files" but files are still on the system. Is there another option for the boot ment?

pcfarrar · 15 Aug 2019 at 08:53

Belly said:
Thanks, from the link I gave I did tick the box "remove all generated.........files" but files are still on the system. Is there another option for the boot ment?

https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW72/Adding+a+boot+menu+option+for+Reflect+recovery

You need to reinstall Macrium then use the remove boot menu option.

Scort · 15 Aug 2019 at 12:50

Belly said:
Could someone please advise me?

I've uninstalled Macrium Reflect as per their instructions:

https://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50112.aspx

Unfortunately there are still a number of traces of Macrium on my system. The ones giving me most concern are located at: C/Boot/Macrium which contains two files

1st. "Drivers" contains empty folders and one search paths.txt file.
2nd. "WA1OKfiles" contains many files and folders the size 250MB

If they weren't on the C Drive, I'd just delete them.

Would it be safe to delete these two files?

Thanks

If the app has been uninstalled, then just Shift+Del these folders - the fact they reside on the %systemdrive% doesn't make them special - other than being 'protected' by a UAC prompt that is

pcfarrar · 15 Aug 2019 at 12:59

Scort said:
If the app has been uninstalled, then just Shift+Del these folders - the fact they reside on the %systemdrive% doesn't make them special - other than being 'protected' by a UAC prompt that is

The windows boot menu option will still appear, yes you could remove it using bcdedit but it's easier to just re-install macrium.

Scort · 16 Aug 2019 at 08:20

pcfarrar said:
The windows boot menu option will still appear, yes you could remove it using bcdedit but it's easier to just re-install macrium.

That's a shoddy uninstall if it still leaves behind such a prompt - though a quick jaunt into msconfig ought to resolve it pretty sharpish, I'd have thought.

pcfarrar · 16 Aug 2019 at 12:55

Scort said:
That's a shoddy uninstall if it still leaves behind such a prompt - though a quick jaunt into msconfig ought to resolve it pretty sharpish, I'd have thought.

Yes you can remove it quite easily with msconfig.

Belly · 16 Aug 2019 at 14:15

Scort said:
If the app has been uninstalled, then just Shift+Del these folders - the fact they reside on the %systemdrive% doesn't make them special - other than being 'protected' by a UAC prompt that is

Thanks everyone I used Scort's suggestion and removed them. I checked MSCONFIG and Macrium does NOT appear there.

Thanks again