Was in a similar situation lately, having Avast installing itself as
part of some bundled update. For everyone's record, Win7 64Bit, though I
see that of little help in this regard.
I too would have liked to go into safe mode,and perform the Avast
removal from there. Obviously, when you turn on your computer, keep
pressing repeatedly, and rapidly on the F8. Then the Loading screen of
your system should come up, and if memory serves me right you would have
to press once on the Down-Arrow, followed by Enter. Windows should now
launch in Safe Mode.
Once launched, you are supposed to press the Alt-Ctrl-W, to have WinEyes
loading. I tried, but had no luck. I tried to press the hotkeys for
NVDA, or Jaws, hoping that either of the screen readers would talk to
me. But apparently my built-in sound card on my Dell computer, does not
support Safe Mode, and from what I was told, you then would be out of luck.
So, how did I get rid of Avast? If you are on Win7, you could go to the
Programs And Features, and try to uninstall Avast from there. OK, that
screen does not talk much, and you can try operate the buttons on the
screen as much as you want, it won't help you.
In WinEyes, there is an app named Virtual View. It did, far as I
remember, come as part of the standard installation. If not, you might
see if anyone on the list could drop you a copy. Jaws has its OCR
feature, that will perform much the same. They both will try to perform
an OCR on your screen, and then present you with a textual version of
the contents. Along with some means of pressing the buttons on the
screen. That is, you press the buttons in the OCR screen, and it will
fly the message over to the Avast Uninstaller, as if you had pressed the
buttons directly there.
What happened in my case,was that Jaws would read the screen far better
than WinEyes, but I only could presse the buttons through the use of
Virtual View in WinEyes. Meaning, I needed have both WinEyes and Jaws
launched at the same time. This was not easy, and took me considerable
time to figure how to manage two screen readers - and their cooperation
- at the same time as I was trying to figure the uninstall process itself.
Thing is, Avast won't just let you uninstall. It first want to know Why,
and if you are Sure, even if you are going to Install Again, or if you
would like to Recommend the software to others. Having clicked some
buttons, and I do think there was a couple of Checkboxes, Avast finally
gives up on you, and dig itself out of the system.
Be forewarned though. It does not do a too good job in cleaning up the
traces in your registry, so chances are that a Registry cleansing would
be your next wanting.
Before anyone have chance to ask the next question, here is the answer.
Isn't there an Uninstaller for Avast, that can be run outside the
Programs An Features? Sure, just go on the net and search for remove
Avast, and you will find it. Yet, I do not know if you really want to go
that extra mile. You end up with pretty much the same screens, and just
as little chance to perfomr the uninstallation without two eyes.
Once upon a time, Avast was very accessible, and I used it on my system.
That system got a malware, that Avast had overlooked. And when I tried
to install Avast on my recovered system, it was no longer accessible at
all, and never have been ever since. At least, I have tried it with
WinEyes, NVDA and Jaws, WinXP as well as Win7, to absolutely no avail.
What's more, several pieces of software now aday, come bundled with
Avast, some of them either installing it without asking your permission,
or presenting you with a non-accessible checkbox for determining if
Avast should be installed. Like in the case with CCleaner, who does ask,
but you won't know whether the checkbox is on or off.
Sorry lengthy message, and that I cannot be of much more help. Struggled
several days in figuring my way out of a hard-spot, but somehow managed.
Best thing would be, if you could have two eyes assist you.
And, by all means, make sure you are logged on to the system with
*Adninistrator priveleges.
David
On 7/20/2019 1:57 AM, Butch Bussen via Talk wrote:
I was trying to install some drivers today from a cd and it installed
avast, which doesn't talk and I can't remove it. I was thinking there
was a way to use we in safe mode, and I'm not sure how I get there.
Is it f 7 or f 8, I don't recall. Any help appreciated.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
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