Easy Way to Manually Uninstall Avast Antivirus on Windows XP
Yesterday, a friend explained that he wished to uninstall the Avast antivirus application for your own AVG to be installed. However, the Avast did not show up on the programs list Add or Remove Program of the control panel on the Beginning list. So, how to find out and uninstall the Avast program thoroughly? The next passage is the answer.
First of all, reinstall the Avast of newer variant and uninstall it with Add or Remove Programs utility in the safe mode as the instruction as listed below:
1) Keep pressing the F8 key after reboot your computer and choose the"safe mode" option to get into the safe mode of your system.
2) Click the "Start" menu and then choose"Control Panel".
3) Open Add/Remove Programs.
4) Locate and highlight Avast from the apps list.
5) Click the " Change/Remove" button to eliminate it from your computer.
6) Follow the on-screen actions to finish the uninstall process.
Second of all, locate out and manually delete t the directories in C disk as listed,
C: Program FilesAlwil Software.
C: WINDOWSTemp
C: WINDOWSPrefetchAVAST. SETUP-032170A8. pf
C: WINDOWSPrefetchAVAST. SETUP-1211A67D. pf EXE-2EA6EB57. pf
Finally, manually delete the related registry keys as listed below by opening the Registry up Editor ( type in" Regedit" after select"Run" in the Start menu) and enlarge the list under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareALWIL Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREALWIL Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREALWIL SoftwareAvast
But if you aren't so certain how to follow the 3 steps above to remove all of the Avast products or find it too difficult and complex to reinstall the newer version or so the turnaround procedure. Throughout the Unistalltaion of Avast if having any problem call avast contact number to get step by step solution.
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