Remove & Uninstall avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 Completely from Windows

Do you have trouble in completely uninstalling avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 from your system? Are you looking for an effective solution to thoroughly get rid of it off the computer? Do not worry! You came to the right place, and you will be able to uninstall avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 without any difficulty.

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However, many users have difficulties and problems away from the computer. Below we have listed possible problems when uninstalling avast! Free Antivirus 7.0. If you also have this problem, you can find a useful solution for this.

It seems that there are many users who have difficulty in uninstalling software like avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 from the system. And some of them get into trouble when uninstalling the software, and some of them can uninstall the software, but to get problems after removal. Some possible problems that people run into:

avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 does not work as good as you thought.
avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 can not be uninstalled
avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 can not be completely uninstall and removed
avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 or other similar software can not be installed or updated again on the computer
The computer system runs much slower after avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 is uninstalled

Causes of the above problems :

avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 does not appear in the program list of Add/Remove Programs
The uninstaller of avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 can not completely remove all associated files
There is some software that is not compatible with avast! Free Antivirus 7.0
There are many remnants left in the registry and hard drive
The .dll, .sys or other files shared with other software are deleted

Manually Uninstall avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 with Windows Add/Remove Programs.

Windows "Add/Remove Programs" offers users a way to uninstall the program, and each Operating system has a "Add/Remove programs" function.

Click "Start menu" and run "Control Panel".
Locate avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 (or AVAST Software) and click "Change/Remove" to uninstall the program.
Follow the uninstall wizard and uninstall the program.

Manually Uninstall avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 with Build-in Uninstaller.

Most computer programs are installed with its build-in uninstaller that can also help uninstall the program.

Click Start menu and move your mouse to All Programs.
Find Search avast! Free Antivirus 7.0 folder and click on its Uninstaller.
Follow its uninstaller and uninstall the program.

To run its uninstaller, you can also

Go to the folder where the program is installed.
Locate its uninstaller usually named as unins000.exe or uninstall.exe
Double click on its uninstaller and follow it to uninstall the program.

Please know that Windows "Add/Remove Programs" and its build-in uninstaller can remove only the main executable program files, but not all program files and components. Some invalid files can be left in the registry and folders. To completely uninstall avast! Free Antivirus 7.0, you need to get rid of these remnants, otherwise, it will slow down your computer and block the installation of other incompatible programs.

To thoroughly delete its files, please follow the steps:

Run Registry Editor
Find and delete all registry entries of the program in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVAST Software\, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AVAST Software\ and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Find and delete all files of the program in system folders C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\, C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\ and C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\AVAST Software\.

NOTE: We recommend only for advanced computer users, manually edit the registry and remove avast! Free Antivirus because deleting any single registry error leads to a serious problem or even a system crash.