Precautions to take for avast 4.8 users before installing avast 5.0!

oh these things will happen with computers Shiw Liang. Especially older ones.

I’ve been lucky myself, but I’ve come across all sorts of different computers and situations and sometimes you just have to do what you can with what the computer will allow. Black screen on a laptop - can you boot it through to setup > you will need to start new thread as this is getting a bit too far off topic now.

Yeah this is going to off topic
lol it is now formatted and working fine

I did the same, and I noticed the avast4 folder was left after a few reboots so I deleted it myself…

I run regular weekly registry cleanups and can't recall any redundant avast4 sound entries (or other avast4 related entries) being flagged, so for me it did a relatively good job.
I still have the avast! 4 sound options in the sounds window via control panel... (image)
One thing though it didn't remove the antivirus section in the windows event viewer and the associated entries, though I don't know what was responsible for creating it in the first place. Though by all accounts if you uninstall avast 4.8 before installing 5.0, then that section is removed.
Yep, still got that, last entry was the update on the 19 Jan, the day avast! 5 was released ;D

-Scott-