A friend of mine brought his PC round here today because it was running
slow. We ran some file tracing software which showed that files relating
to his old Brother MFC-3220 fax machine/printer were constantly polling
the machine. The drivers are labelled MFL-PRO software suite.
He scrapped this printer years ago. We couldn't find any uninstall
program or entry in Add/remove programs, and the original CD, which
actually looks like an official CD on a writable disk, gives
unrecoverable read errors.

What is the best way to remove all references to this software? Is there
a general, reasonably safe and preferably free uninstall program? I
assume we really want to remove any registry entries and other
references as well as files.
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Bill

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Bill <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>A friend of mine brought his PC round here today because it was running
>slow. We ran some file tracing software which showed that files
>relating to his old Brother MFC-3220 fax machine/printer were
>constantly polling the machine. The drivers are labelled MFL-PRO
>software suite.
>He scrapped this printer years ago. We couldn't find any uninstall
>program or entry in Add/remove programs, and the original CD, which
>actually looks like an official CD on a writable disk, gives
>unrecoverable read errors.
>
>What is the best way to remove all references to this software? Is
>there a general, reasonably safe and preferably free uninstall program?
>I assume we really want to remove any registry entries and other
>references as well as files.

Ooops, sorry to follow up my own message, but I've now found an
uninstall tool on the Brother site, so I've emailed that to him to see
if it helps.

Sorry to have messed anyone about.
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Bill

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Bill <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I've now found an uninstall tool on the Brother site,

And just to finish off the thread, he ran the uninstall tool, selected
the correct printer, hit go and then restarted the PC. But these
obsolete files were still there and nobbling performance.

So we did a search and switch off all Brother items showing up in
SysInternals Autoruns program, then re-installed his current, different
Brother printer, and all is now good.

The MFC printer and fax drivers were polling away for large amounts of
time. He tells me that without them the machine starts and runs far, far
faster.
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Bill