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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: cattledogit on October 26, 2012, 11:13:03 PM

Title: Required Chrome install messed up my registry
Post by: cattledogit on October 26, 2012, 11:13:03 PM

The Chrome autoinstall changed my registry settings so that things broke when I uninstalled Chrome.

I've found in the past that Chrome's autoupdate takes over my CPU at random times (seen as 'setup.exe') so I uninstalled it then. However, after uninstalling the version installed with Avast, clicking links in emails and on some Firefox pages was broken as described at http://www.msoutlook.info/question/242 because Chrome changed some registry settings.

Please provide an option for users who don't want to install Chrome.

Title: Re: Required Chrome install messed up my registry
Post by: Para-Noid on October 27, 2012, 12:23:21 AM

Quote from: cattledogit on October 26, 2012, 11:13:03 PM

Please provide an option for users who don't want to install Chrome.

There is. I have made it a habit of looking at every screen during an install. The reason is that anymore a lot of software comes with some sort of surprise. Be it opt-in or opt-out. avast comes with an opt-out for Chrome.  :)

Title: Re: Required Chrome install messed up my registry
Post by: cattledogit on October 27, 2012, 01:05:57 AM

I guess that's what I get for clicking "Custom Install" and expecting to see all the options without reading everything in the splash window.  >:(

With some testing it's easy to determine what users are most likely to overlook during installation.