Hello.

you said: “since you appear to be using multiple drives and/or partitions, I don’t know if that affects things.”

I’m not quite sure what you mean by this, 1) because I am a dash computer illiterate and thus 2) I have my computer as it was purchased, and have made no mentionable changes to its “guts”. (!)

Yes, I was thinking as you were, to re-install avast! for the new admin account, though all the programs seem to
have made the leap quite fine. Another user yesterday told me to re-install as the “true” administrator, but as I can only access that in safe mode (XP), not sure how to do so.

You say to do a complete uninstall…so it is not so straight forward as simply utilizing the uninstall option in programs?

Cheers!