Ever since the system restore I used today, Avast all of a sudden is giving me a plethora of errors and problems. Saying I am unprotected and not registered, when it says that I am registered. It also is now saying the service is not started, and when I do start it from Control Panel > Services, it deactivates again.
Also, if I try to uninstall Avast from control panel so I can install a fresh copy, I get this error: http://gyazo.com/6f10e68b79afb0bdc20d2d4c18c73d23
Yup, the same thing happened to me when I did restore.
HI NjMike I would try a repair of avast go to control panel and go to avast and scroll down and go to repair and click next and then after it is done the repair reboot your computer and see if that helps.
have a good day
I don’t have Avast anywhere in my control panel. Unless you mean in Programs and Features? In there, there is no option to repair it. Just “Uninstall/Change”, which I can’t do.
Also I am using Windows 7 64-bit, sorry I didn’t mention that earlier.
Hi Mike:
Download the Avast uninstaller aswclear.exe
Boot into Windows safe mode by tapping F8 upon startup
Run aswclear.exe
Reboot
Reinstall Avast
This does not do anything.
What doesn’t do anything - e.g. exactly what is it that you are doing and what happens (or not) and are there any errors reported ?
I bolded it inside the quote.
Anyway, this doesn’t matter anymore because Simion’s method worked. I just had to configure my computer to start in safe mode manually, since F8 was not working.
Avast has been removed and I have re-installed a totally fresh copy as well as re-registering brand-new. No idea why I had to re-register brand-new, but nevertheless, it worked. So…
Well you actually don’t need to do that, the aswClear.exe when run in normal mode will tell you it should be run in safe mode and when you elect to do that it handles the boot into safe mode.
The main thing is that you have it working now.