You will probably never use the control panel to add a program, but you have to use the control panel to remove a program. The only reason you should ever really remove a program, though, is if your hard drive runs out of space.
Open the control panel.
Open add or remove programs.
This is add or remove programs.
This completes adding or removing programs.
Remove a program, for example, if you can't wait to stop the security center pop-ups, then you can remove the McAfee Security Center right now.
Be careful because when you remove a program, the only way to get it back is to reinstall it.