I just found that Netgear Genie fires up from time to time and takes up 99% of CPU until I forcibly kill it. So, I tried to uninstall. When I try to uninstall using the Genie's own uninstaller, I get "The application does not support this OS."
Genie v 1.2.0.14
A little research on the site shows me that this is likely because I upgraded to Windows 10, and whoever wrote your old Genie app and install routines must have assumed that there will never be any OS updates. So, now it's stuck on my machine, and is showing really bad behavior from time to time. I've noticed by searching on your support forums that a LOT of people are having issues with old/new Genie after upgrading to Windows 10, and so far I haven't found a thread that eneded with a resolution.
I tried downloading the new version and then uninstalling it but it didn't impact the old installation.
I need this GONE. Can't even remember why I installed it, as I'm a technical guy and have tools for doing network traces and other analysis.
All I want is to have it GONE. Please let me know how to do this.
I'm going to be REALLY disappointed - angry might be a better word - if this will require an hour's worth of registry editing and similar kinds of "oops, we messed up so you get to clean it up" stuff.
Model: WNDA4100|N900 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter|EOL
You could try using either Revo Uninstaller, Geek Uninstaller or Ccleaner (all of these programs have free versions). But I suspect that you will have to bite the bullet and manually uninstall it. I would start by disabling anything that starts Genie at bootup. Go to the Task Manager's Startup tab and disable any references to Genie. Do the same for Services. Then crawl through the registry...
