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Title: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 11:58:23 AM: Hello,

Has anyone found a safe way of removing avast safezone? It is taking up precious space on my small laptop SSD. Thanks.
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: danny96 on March 15, 2011, 12:06:40 PM: Add or remove programs > Avast! > Change component and uncheck tick "Safezone"
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: Lisandro on March 15, 2011, 12:10:02 PM: ~65Mb... Is that much?
You can use Control Panel to remove avast components... But, really, it's not that much...
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 12:36:37 PM: Unfortunately that option does not work for me - it just tells me "Error: Cannot connect to server". I think this is an error in the setup program - it tries to update Avast instead of letting me modify it. And yes, I am using the latest version.

Is there any reason why the avast installer does not let me deselect safezone during the initial installation of Avast?

And yes, 65MB is a lot when my SSD is 2GB - my Windows folder occupies 169MB, so overall Avast takes more space that Windows... do you see anything weird about that?
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: doktornotor on March 15, 2011, 12:43:53 PM: Use the latest prerelease version if you want to save your 65MiB.

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And new in v6.0.1027:
- attempt to fix new compatibility problems with GameGuard and sXe _rootkits_
- SafeZone improvements
- localization updates (including WebRep)
- improved sandbox logging
- SafeZone is now a standalone setup package (can be installed/uninstalled separately)
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 01:04:25 PM: Thank you very much, or as you say in CZ "Děkuji", doktornotor - that is exactly what I was looking for.

This saved me 87MB of space.
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: Lisandro on March 15, 2011, 02:18:07 PM: Quote from: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 12:36:37 PM
Is there any reason why the avast installer does not let me deselect safezone during the initial installation of Avast?
Did you follow custom installation?
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 03:09:42 PM: Quote from: Tech on March 15, 2011, 02:18:07 PM
Quote from: ixjhveayinrz on March 15, 2011, 12:36:37 PM
Is there any reason why the avast installer does not let me deselect safezone during the initial installation of Avast?
Did you follow custom installation?

Yes, but for the latest OFFICIAL version - where this option is not available. The preview version does have it available though.
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: Lisandro on March 16, 2011, 01:53:09 AM: Strange, it's there on the latest beta version...
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: oldbelcher on November 09, 2013, 05:49:10 PM: Thanks! Tried for days to connect to my home network. Safe Zone prevented me from doing so. Once I unticked Safe Zone, all works well. I didn't want it in the first place and don't know how it appeared. Anyway, thanks for the tip. ;)
Title: Re: Uninstall safezone - how
Post by: DavidR on November 09, 2013, 05:57:57 PM: Quote from: oldbelcher on November 09, 2013, 05:49:10 PM
Thanks! Tried for days to connect to my home network. Safe Zone prevented me from doing so. Once I unticked Safe Zone, all works well. I didn't want it in the first place and don't know how it appeared. Anyway, thanks for the tip. ;)

What avast version do you have ?
This is a very old topic from 2001 (two and a half years old) relating to very old avast version 6.0. The latest avast version is avast 2014 - 9.0.2007.