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Remove Components Left Behind by the Uninstaller

Uninstallation of Arcserve UDP leaves behind some components such as the CA Licensing Components, SQL Server Express, Microsoft Visual C++ components installed as dependency, and driver related (wdf) files. These components consist of multiple individual files, which are installed and removed with the corresponding component. The CA Licensing Components file is not automatically removed during uninstallation because it is a shared component with other CA products and numerous components.

Important! The CA licensing is shared by all CA products, please make sure that you do not have any other CA product installed on your machine or else you may lose the licensing for all CA products installed on that machine.

Important! If the components are removed, any programs that are installed after Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) and depend on these components may not function properly.

If you want to manually remove these components, perform the following steps:

Remove CA Licensing Component manually

  1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\CA_LIC directory.
  2. Find the zip file named lic98_uninstaller.zip and unzip that file to some other location (for example: C:\temp).
  3. Go to the location where the files were extracted and locate two script files that are named rmlic.exe and rmlicense.bat.
  4. Click on rmlicense.bat to execute the script which uninstalls the components.
  5. Manually delete the following folders:
  6. Remove the registry key for the CA Licensing component.

Remove Microsoft Visual C++ and Microsoft SQL Server Express manually

  1. Access the standard Add or Remove Programs application located in the Windows Control Panel (Control Panel, Programs and Features, Remove Programs).
  2. Select Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 and then click Uninstall.
  3. Select Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 and then click Uninstall.
  4. Select Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and then click Uninstall.
  5. To remove only the Arcserve UDP database, select "ARCSERVE_APP" and click Uninstall.