AVG6 removal not complete

It's weird how AVG 6 would not uninstall. I've uninstalled it a couple of times then re-installed later, and have had no problems.

How did you uninstall it? Through Add/Remove Programs, or through AVG's uninstall utility, or some other way?

I found this in another tech forum. It may or may not help;

"How did you remove AVG6?

I used AVG6 for many months and thought all was okay. I started having problems with the computer and ran it through about 5 times. Someone suggested I try AVAST and I tried to uninstall AVG6 but it wouldn't go. I went into cmd mode and finally after changing the avgserver.exe file to avgserver.ex_ I was able to delete it."


Mark

Thanks to both of you - will check out your suggestions and let you know how I go

No joy so far. I uninstalled AVG6 using the Add/Remove facility and a search of my folders for avgserv.exe came up negative but the AVG6 service still exists in my list of services. Is there a way to delete this service altogether?

Ron, this may not be the best solution and definately is not for the faint of heart... I modify the registry and delete all references under software in two places to "Grisoft or AVG". This generally does the trick!

Do not recommend this to inexperienced users and strongly recommend a backup of the registry before making any changes.

Best of luck!

Glenn

Thanks Glenn but I don't think my heart is strong enough. I did a search of the registry for 'grisoft' and 'avg6' and there were quite a few hits but I do not feel confident enough to hit the delete button. Will leave things as they are for the time being as the anomoly is not causing any problems.
Thanks all for your help.

Like you at one time I was intimidated with the registry... still am to a degree. I don't blame you if it makes you uncomfortable in any way. That is when mistakes occur. Wish I could walk you through it as this procedure has saved me lots of grief in the past.

If you are located where it is celebrated, have a great Thanksgiving Day tomorrow!

Glenn

Finally got the nerve to use regedit to remove all traces of AVG6 and Grisoft from the registry and then ran the sc delete command to remove the service from the list of services. It was great to see the event viewer no longer showed the AVG6 service trying to start. Thanks for your help.

Sometimes just getting up the nerve is the hard part. I have used that procedure many times and solved many quirky problems. Just one precaution and that is to always make a backup before making registry changes. You can do that from the "Registry Editor" File Menu.

What you have done is about as far as my comfort level will permit in deleting/adjusting the registry. Am glad it worked for you... thanks for posting back.

Glenn