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Cannot uninstall AVG Free
Name: Paz Date: January 28, 2005 at 18:22:29 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Amd XP3000+/512MB
Comment:
Hi
I tried uninstalling AVG Free Antivirus the other day, restarted my pc, and it was still there, but all the uninstall exes have gone, it seems.
Anyone have any ideas how to uninstall it? I don't need it anymore because i've got norton antivirus now.
Name: Andrewj357 Date: January 28, 2005 at 19:02:06 Pacific
Reply:
Boot into safe mode. Go to start, run, msconfig and click startup. Uncheck anything that looks like AVG. Go to the program's path (C:/programs/AVG/) and delete everything there. Go to start, run, regedit. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software. Delete AVG. Do the same in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software.
jablonskia@morejavagames.com
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Response Number 2
Name: Paz Date: January 28, 2005 at 19:21:05 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks very much for your help, i'll try that in a bit, and get back to you.
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Response Number 3
Name: RichGu Date: January 28, 2005 at 19:57:58 Pacific
Reply:
Sweet!
Andrew - thats a badass (and down in the OS) tight fix.
RichGu Win XP Pro - SP2 P4 3.2 / 768
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Response Number 4
Name: Paz Date: January 30, 2005 at 08:53:11 Pacific
Reply:
I've managed to uninstall it now, by following what you said.
I had to download a little program called "GiPo@MoveOnBoot", so i could delete avgse.dll at startup (i couldn't remove it safe mode).
Thanks for your help!
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Response Number 5
Name: Andrewj357 Date: January 30, 2005 at 12:47:34 Pacific
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