Vista won't uninstall AVG 8 free
MachineGunKelly
The STICKS, Illinois
Hi again!
The rig: Pent. 3.0 gig, 1 gig ram, Vista home, all basic out-of-the-box Wal-Mart E-machine. AVG 8 trial expired.
Currently has no antivirus software!
I want to upgrade my daughters e-machine to Kaspersky, which I've already paid for and downloaded to her Vista based system. I uninstalled AVG 8 but the Kaspersky installer says it is still there when it unpacks and shows it in a window to remove. It does NOT show in the list of
progs in add/remove. I searched and manually deleted all vestiges of AVG 8 I could find, folders, bitmap logos, etc. but Kaspersky still says it is there and will not install. I have re-booted after uninstall, ran 'search' of all hidden and everything else I can think of. Is it time for a registry edit/hack? How do you do that with Vista?
Thanks for any ideas!
MGK
The rig: Pent. 3.0 gig, 1 gig ram, Vista home, all basic out-of-the-box Wal-Mart E-machine. AVG 8 trial expired.
Currently has no antivirus software!
I want to upgrade my daughters e-machine to Kaspersky, which I've already paid for and downloaded to her Vista based system. I uninstalled AVG 8 but the Kaspersky installer says it is still there when it unpacks and shows it in a window to remove. It does NOT show in the list of
progs in add/remove. I searched and manually deleted all vestiges of AVG 8 I could find, folders, bitmap logos, etc. but Kaspersky still says it is there and will not install. I have re-booted after uninstall, ran 'search' of all hidden and everything else I can think of. Is it time for a registry edit/hack? How do you do that with Vista?
Thanks for any ideas!
MGK
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Once I blindly navigated my way to 'run', I ran msconfig and edited/removed the AVG folder from the chain and PRESTO!
Kaspersky is loading as I type.
Thanks anyway!
MGK
You can move to resolved now!
I had a similar issue upgrading my AVG the other day. I uninstalled and did all that but when it came time to reinstall it said I couldn't. Finally had to regedit and remove AVG through there.