Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Tue Feb 28 10:44:56 CST 2012
Well, we had a 1.5 second power outage yesterday - one of the four rainy days per year allowed by local ordinance. Machine wouldn't reboot - Dell fixed it by updating the BIOS - apparently something got hosed in there when the power failed. But I cannot get Avast (free version) restarted. Starting the interface in the Current Status tab it says "Unsecured" . The FIX NOW button doesn't do anything after a bit of cogitating. There's another message under that "The avast! program has been stopped or is in an inconsistent state...", etc. with a link to 'Start Program'. Same result - bit of wheel spinning and still not started. So I figure I'll just uninstall it, download the latest release, and reinstall. But no soap. Can't uninstall. I get an avast! Setup Fatal Error "Error reading product data from "C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\AVAST\setup". Setup cannot continue." I tried their aswclear.exe program but no soap there. So now I'm stumped. Any ideas short of deleting the folder and combing through the registry for avast entries and keeping fingers crossed? MTIA Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> Skype: rocky.smolin