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I am very familiar with Windows. Can you give me more specific, technical information on how to remove Folding@home?

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I am very familiar with Windows. Can you give me more specific, technical information on how to remove Folding@home?

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There are basically three things to remove, assuming there isn’t some underlying virus which will try to rebuild them: • Executable and work files. Use Windows Explorer to look for a directory containing files beginning FAH or Fah. Other files in that directory might be WinFAH, MyFolding, client, queue, and unitinfo. There should also be a subdirectory named work containing files with names beginning wudata, wuinfo, wuresults, logfile, current, and core78. Any such files can be deleted, and if deleting them all leaves a directory substantially empty, that is, with nothing remaining which looks useful, then those remaining files and the directory itself should be deleted too. • Scheduling and startup files. Remove shortcuts in any startup folders or desktops which refer to files deleted in step 1. • System information. Use regedit to remove the PandeGroup keys in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software group. This might fail to remove the main executable file if its name has been changed to mak

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