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"Standard" Legitimate installations

The following intructions assume you initially intended to install the Folding@home console client, and also know the location in which you installed it.

Service installation 

A service installation is one which runs via the windows service manager. It is originally installed by running through the client configuration and selecting yes to "Install the client as a service." The most obvious method of checking if your client is installed as a service is to look for a CLI window in your taskbar. If it is missing, then the Folding@home client is probably installed as a service. If you can locate your FAHlog.txt you should also see a line at the top stating Arguments: -svcstart.

Interactive installation 

An interactive installation of Folding@home means that the console is run manually via a (startup) shortcut, or by the user manually starting the executable. In a standard installation, an interactive client will show a CLI window, which may be minimised to the taskbar.

Service installations

1. Run "services.msc" from the run prompt (Win+r)
2. Find the service called FAH@... (the details after the @ sign, tell you where Folding@home is running from).
3. Click the process and select stop. This will kill the FAH50x-Console.exe and FahCore_xx.exe processes, which you should see in taskmanager.
4. If you only want to prevent Folding@home from running at startup, change the service option to "manual" or to "disabled" (it should currently be "automatic")
5. To completely remove the service, and then Folding@home:
   1. Open a command prompt to the location shown in the service manager (i.e. the location after the @ symbol)
      Replace any + symbols with \ symbols.
      For example: FAH@C:+Program Files+Folding@Home is stored in C:\Program Files\Folding@Home
      1. For those who are not familiar with navigating in the text window (cmd window) the following should work using the example above:
         1. C:
         2. CD "\Program Files\Folding@Home"
            (Note that the quote marks are needed because there is a required space between Program and Files)
   2. Once in the Folding@home directory, run .\FAH50x-Console -local -configonly (where x is the number you should have seen in taskmanager)
   3. When prompted to remove the service, select yes, all other options are irrelevant since you will be removing the client. If you are NOT prompted to remove the service you can remove it via the command line like this: sc delete "FAH@C:+Program Files+Folding@Home+Console2+FAH504-Console.exe". Replace "FAH@C:+Program Files+Folding@Home+Console2+FAH504-Console.exe" with the name of the service as it appears in your Service Manager. The service name should be enclosed in quotes for maximum compatibility.
   4. Once the configuration has completed, the service will have been removed, and you can safely delete the entire Folding@home folder if you so desire.

Interactive installations

1. Close the console client with a CTRL+C
2. Navigate to your FAH installation directory and delete the contents

Removing startup entries

When running the Folding@home client interactively, you may have created an autostart mechanism. This could either be in the form of a startup shortcut, or a registry entry.

Startup shortcuts

1. Open your start menu, and navigate to Programs → Startup
2. Right click on Startup and select Open.
3. If a shortcut exists for FAH50x-Console.exe, delete it.
4. In the explorer address bar (if it is invisible go to View → Toolbars → Address Bar), alter the address, replacing the current username with All Users.
   For example: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
   becomes C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
5. Repeat step 3

Registry Entries

1. Start the windows registry editor, via Start → Run, regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete any values that run the FAH50x-Console.exe executable
3. Repeat for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Removing Folding@home registry entries

Whichever client you run, registry entries are made. These are all stored in the same place, and can be removed with a single action

1. Start the windows registry editor, via Start → Run, regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PandeGroup
3. Delete the whole PandeGroup key

Related Links

• Folding-community: Uncle_Fungus in FAH has ruined my computer
• Official stanford uninstall FAQ outdated