I’m running Windows 95 and yesterday I downloaded Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus program. Since then I’m having blue screens of death and problems rebooting the computer.
I’m also running McAfee and Vet anti-virus programs. I suspect that there’s conflicts running there. Every time I delete Vet, there’s problems on start-up, the computer looks for Vet and throws a tizzy that it can’t find it. If I attempt to delete AVG, the computer will only run in safe mode. AVG doesn’t like being deleted BTW and it doesn’t give any directions that I can find on how to delete it. I haven’t attempted to delete McAfee but it’s turned off now.
I think I need to edit my start-up menu (?) but I can’t find it! Config, config-sys, msconfig, autoexe-bat, I can’t find them on my system.
Thanks for any ideas or any info on how to get rid of AVG (which looks like a great anti-virus BTW). Should I just reformat with Windows 98?
Click START -> Programs -> AVG 6.0 Antivirus System -> Uninstall AVG
Click START -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs
In MS DOS prompt -> go to the AVG folder -> run setup.exe /UNINSTALL
yeah I tried that and the computer would only run in safe mode. We restored the files (as in me and Mr P ) and it ran then.
Astro thanks, we’ll try going into MS DOS and deleting it that way. I looked on the grisoft site and couldn’t find it! Panic does that to one. Plus I am beyond certain that when I looked on the programs menu I did NOT have the delete option! It’s there now. The computer actually ran OK speedwise with Mcafee and Vet loaded but it was running beyond slow once AVG joined the party. Ten minutes to boot up and excruciatingly slow to do anything at all. Even with AVG turned off it was not a happy chappy.
OK, primaflora, try editing your Windows startup folders. It’s somewhat less fun than it sounds. Here are the places you need to check:
[li]Sounds like you’ve already tried checking config.sys and autoexec.bat but couldn’t find them. Run “sysedit” and you should go right to them.[/li][li]Right-click on your Start button and choose “Explore.” Your active “Startup” folder should be somewhere under the “Start Menu” folder you are taken to, usually in the “Programs” folder.[/li][li]Also check to see if there is a folder at “c:\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.” That one’s burned me more times than I can count.[/li]
I don’t think 95 had “msconfig,” which is why that didn’t work.
thanks guys! AVG is gone and astro, I eat my words about the slowness of the computer. I’m running with macafee turned off and the difference in speed is quite noticeable.
Knead, AVG wasn’t lurking in the startup folder but another nuisance value problem was and I fixed that!
I feel like a right idiot now though. Once I was on the right path, it took no time at all to fix and I should been able to figure it myself. Mr P swears that delete option wasn’t there before either but that’s not possible is it?
) and it ran then.