Can't uninstall Avast

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I installed Avast AV on my Windows 7 64-bit system. However, I have been strongly advised not to run more than 1 AV on my system. I would like to try with just MSE for a certain trial period. When I try to uninstall Avast, I get the window that says “Uninstallation progress” and it never goes away. It consumes 100% of one of my 4 processors. I did this from an administrator account. I also tried using elevated-privilege version of Windows Explorer. That is, from an elevated cmd shell, I entered “taskkill /f /im explorer.exe” followed by “explorer.exe”. The results are the same. I cannot find a description of this problem on google or google groups.

What could possibly cause this, and how can I fully and properly uninstall avast?

Thanks.

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You’ll need to uninstall in safe mode. After you do, boot normally and run aswclear.exe, http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility to remove anything left behind, and run a cleaner utility after that, the one most recommended on this forum is Ccleaner.

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See here for aswclear.exe download and proper uninstall procedure for using this utility.

http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility

Follow the instructions and you should be good to go.

Note that aswclear is to go only to your desktop.