{"id":9211,"date":"2026-10-26T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/how-to-allow-or-disallow-local-uninstallation-elements-endpoint-protection-agent\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:15:21","slug":"how-to-allow-or-disallow-local-uninstallation-elements-endpoint-protection-agent","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/how-to-allow-or-disallow-local-uninstallation-elements-endpoint-protection-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"How to allow or disallow local uninstallation Elements Endpoint Protection Agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How can an administrator prevent or block a local administrator user from uninstalling Elements Agent from a computer?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>To allow or disallow a local administrator user from uninstalling the Elements Agent:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log on to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Security configurations &gt;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Profiles\u00a0<\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Select the profile that is in use on your devices<\/li>\n<li>Under <b>General <\/b>settings, under the <strong>Security features <\/strong>section, slide the &quot;Allow user to uninstall the product&quot; slider to the\u00a0<b>on <\/b>or <b>off<\/b> position.\n<ul>\n<li>On &#8211; User is allowed to uninstall the product<\/li>\n<li>Off &#8211; User is not allowed to uninstall the product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Save profile<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When this setting is disabled, an administrator user cannot uninstall the Elements Agent using Windows Apps &amp; Features functionality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To block a user from running WsUninstallationTool.exe to uninstall Elements Agent, you can enable the <strong>Tamper Protection f<\/strong>eature from the\u00a0<strong>Security features<\/strong> section page in the profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I change the local uninstallation setting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-9211","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005414","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-26 13:15:21","import_hash":"48de811b1a38ef4a6a7b672a9bd305cb7c8d7c69","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/9211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}