remove AVG and McAfee from windows ME

diroga

diroga

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The users have dialup and hardly use the computer in the first place. Computer is a 866Mhz/133 P3 with 384mb of PC100 RAM. It is running windows Millennium. Reinstall is not an option. I have got IE6 installed and all the updates for it and windows. The computer has AVG 7.5 and McAfee VirusScan v4.0.3 on it. AVG pops up twice per boot saying it is no longer supported. This must go. I disabled McAfee from msconfig but I am not fully sure if it is working.

My major concern is that trying to remove these two programs will horridly destroy windows ME because I hear bad things about ME. I never used it. I am not sure how to correctly remove them. Qucik search I found this for AVG http://www.avg.com/faq.num-436#faq_436 and here fore McAfee http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100376&lc=1033. Any other Ideas? I don't want to brick this computer.


Second. I think it would be a good idea to have some security software on there but I am not aware of anything that is up to date that works with ME. AVG free 8.5 does not work on millennium. I'm looking at some of these now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antivirus_software#Freeware. The computer wont be on cable probably ever and they hardly ever use the computer in general. So you could sorta get away with it, but its windows ME running IE 6. :rolleyes:

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From the link I removed McAfee by doing add/remove programs. It deleted the my programs folder and entries in msconfig. so it is gone. now for AVG
 
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diroga

diroga

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johnb35 said:
Just try uninstalling avg through the add/remove programs. If it won't uninstall correctly you will need to download the avg remover.

http://www.avg.com/download-tools

It's the first one on that page.
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That errors every time I try it. I have downloaded it several times and get the same problem. I think it will not run on ME.

I did that add/remove unistall method but it gave me this error.
Local machine: installation failed
Installation:
Error: Action failed for file setup.exe: creating backup....
Access is denied. (5) %DESTINATION% = "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\setup.exe.install_backup", %SOURCE% = "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\setup.exe"
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I followed these instructions and ran ccleaner. AVG7_AMSVR still shows up in msconfig but I have it unchecked. I have not seen any avg warnings. I think it is gone.
 
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