{"id":22384,"date":"2017-07-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/kb\/uninstall-sophos-central-endpoint-windows\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:43:13","slug":"uninstall-sophos-central-endpoint-windows","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/kb\/uninstall-sophos-central-endpoint-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninstall Sophos Central Endpoint (Windows)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this article we will show you how to uninstall Sophos Central Endpoint Protection from your Windows computer.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Important<\/strong>: By default, Sophos Central on Sophos Endpoint Client has Tamper Protection enabled. This prevents a user from easily uninstalling the client or changing settings. Before you can follow this tutorial, you must have disabled Tamper Protection for your client. How to do that, you will learn in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/kb\/disable-sophos-central-tamper-protection\/\">this<\/a> tutorial.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-voraussetzungen\">Requirements<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sophos Central Account<\/li><li>Admin rights on the computer<\/li><li>Tamper Protection disabled<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sophos-endpoint-protection-deinstallieren\">Uninstall Sophos Endpoint Protection<\/h2>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-sophos-endpoint-client-deinstallieren\">1. uninstall Sophos Endpoint Client<\/h3>\n\n<p>After you have removed the Tamper Protection, the client can be uninstalled from Windows. To do this, go to the <strong>Control Panel<\/strong>, select <code>Programme deinstallieren<\/code> and find <strong>Sophos Endpoint Agent<\/strong> in the list. With a click on <code>Deinstallieren<\/code> the client can now be removed.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" data-id=\"21800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Uninstall Sophos Endpoint Client\" class=\"wp-image-21800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-64x36.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-windows-control-panel-endpoint-client-uninstall.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. remove the computer from Sophos Central<\/h3>\n\n<p>After uninstalling the client on the Windows computer, you can also remove the computer from Sophos Central. To do this, click again on the left <strong>sidebar<\/strong> on the menu item <code>Endpoint Protection<\/code> and immediately after that on <code>Computer<\/code>. Select the computer you want to remove and click the <code>Delete<\/code> button in the upper right corner.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" data-id=\"21801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"Sophos Central Endpoint Protection Computers\" class=\"wp-image-21801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-64x47.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-600x445.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-1536x1139.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/assets\/sophos-central-endpoint-protection-computer-delete.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>Important<\/strong>: To save yourself a lot of trouble, you should never remove the computer from Sophos Central before uninstalling the client on the computer. If you want to uninstall the client on the computer and it still has tamper protection, it will be extremely inconvenient to remove the client after all. We have written the right guide for you for this emergency: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/kb\/uninstall-sophos-endpoint-protection-with-tamper-protection-enabled-windows\/\">Uninstalling Sophos Central Endpoint with tamper protection enabled (Windows)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","kb_kategorie":[384],"class_list":["post-22384","kb","type-kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","kb_kategorie-central-endpoint-protection"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/22384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_kategorie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avanet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_kategorie?post=22384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}