In message , jetjock
writes:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:11:27 -0500, Paul
wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Fired up this W7 machine after a year's inactivity. AVG seemed to have
difficulty updating (the tray icon has a yellow /!\ on it), so I went
and got a new version, thinking it'd see the old one and overwrite it.
It didn't - just loaded in parallel.
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I tried Revo-ing the old one (with trepidation, as I feared it might
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Occasionally I get popups saying update failed, or something like that.
I presume those are coming from the old one, as the new one seems to be
up to date.
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A lot of these AV companies offer removal tools.

https://www.avg.com/en-ca/utilities

Ah, thanks, I might have a look at that. Though I suspect they won't
offer one for removing an old one and letting a new one stay in place!

AVG_Remover.exe

I hope you made a backup before you started this,
just in case...

Not yet, but I'd better soon! I've got a weird keyboard funny too (see
next thread).

Paul

Another alternative for using Revo is the "Forced Uninstall". If your
AVG installs are in two separate folders you can use it to navigate to
the folder you want removed, look for the .exe file and click on it.
Revo will then uninstall that program. You probably don't want to do a
Will uninstall just the .exe, or all that goes with it? (But anyway ...
scan afterwards though, as that would most likely remove shared files
from the registry. Or, you could remove both instances and start
fresh, which is what I would do.

.... that's probably what I'm going to do, with the exception of starting
afresh - I'm probably going to install some other AV, because I have the
feeling that AVG is now turning on its silly "signature" at next reboot
even if you turn it off.)

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