{"id":4021,"date":"2026-06-08T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4021"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:04:57","slug":"withsecure-elements-agent-uninstalls-fortinet-forticlient-vpn-software-during-installation","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/support-articles\/withsecure-elements-agent-uninstalls-fortinet-forticlient-vpn-software-during-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"WithSecure Elements Agent uninstalls Fortinet Forticlient VPN software during installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>When installing WithSecure Elements Agent (EPP for Computers or for Servers) on a Windows computer, it uninstalls a VPN software called Forticlient from Fortinet inc. How to install Elements Agent without it uninstalling Forticlient?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">The Elements Agent for Computers and for Servers\u00a0installer can be run with an additional command line parameter to skip sidegrade (removal of incompatible products) for Forticlient.<\/p>\n<p>Follow these steps to skip sidegrade:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open a Command prompt as an Administrator<\/font><br \/><font face=\"arial\">2. Navigate with the Command promp to the folder where you stored the Elements Agent installer<\/font><br \/><font face=\"arial\">3. Run command: <\/font><\/p>\n<pre class=\"ckeditor_codeblock\">\n&lt;installername.exe&gt; --skip-sidegrade &quot;Forticlient&quot;\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">You can also skip sidegrade for every incompatible product by using using <b>&quot;*&quot;<\/b>. For example:\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<pre class=\"ckeditor_codeblock\">\n&lt;installername.exe&gt;\u00a0--skip-sidegrade &quot;*&quot;<\/pre>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-Secure Computer Protection uninstalls Forticlient VPN software<br \/>\nHow to install Computer Protection without it uninstalling Forticlient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4021","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005757","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:04:57","import_hash":"21d0ba67cc5a1618bf94539487cf6483c0132d8b","vanilla_article_id":32267,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32267-withsecure-elements-agent-uninstalls-fortinet-forticlient-vpn-software-during-installation","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}