Why can I uninstall "Intel(R) Management Engine Components" Is this fine?

[Tigrou]

I was looking trough the list of installed programs and find that "Intel(R) Management Engine Components" is installed on my computer :

 

It seems I can't uninstall it (button is grayed). Rebooting PC does not help.

Is this fine ? Is it supposed to be like that ? I think this is installed with most Windows 10 setup if you have an Intel platform (at least if you install drivers).

[Ashleyyyy]

that's sketchy. it's not installed on my pc and i have an i3 8100. 

[Tigrou]

1 minute ago, Genwyn said:

Real solution: buy a core2duo and use Linux 

Considering I have a 9700K, seems like a bit of a downgrade 

[Wolly9102]

I don't think it's supposed to be. I can uninstall if I want to. Don't know where the problem comes from. I have an program icon and program version though.

[Sakkura]

It's kind of part of the chipset drivers. Don't worry about it, it's fine.

 

5 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

Welcome to Windows, where you don’t have anywhere near as much control over your PC as you’d think.

 

As far as I know you can force that kind of stuff off the computer with powershell but it’ll just come back.

Real solution: buy a core2duo and use Linux 

 

You can't really remove the IME regardless of OS.

[LogicWeasel]

18 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

Yeah but then you won’t have IME reducing your 9700k to the performance of a core2duo

I'm not a fan of IME but I also don't go around claiming massive hyperbole about it slowing down the CPU artificially.  Also it's not like AMD doesn't have their own thing called "Trust Zone" it just seems no one talks about it (gee wonder why).  

 

I've read of IME being an attack vector, but it's not a mega throttle, that said it can be updated via driver when the older driver/firmware has issues, just like any other chipset component.

[Tigrou]

If I remember well, I had another program in the same list, called the same way ("Intel(R) ...") but in french and with a different icon :

 

 

I was able to uninstall that one.

 

 

[Edward78]

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Real solution: buy a core2duo and use Linux 

I have a old core2duo in a drawer by me right now.