Cannot shut it down

I cannot completely shut down Avast and all of its components. Please tell me how to shut it down completely before I uninstall it. I don’t like it when programs take away my control of MY COMPUTER.

You don’t have do disable avast to uninstall it.
Avast is not intended to be run just on-demand, but as resident. I don’t think this could be called ‘take control away from the computer’.
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