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Title: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: drogue on March 08, 2014, 11:22:40 AM

Hi, please can anyone help. I've had some issues with 'no more valid endpoints' and after doing some searching I decided to uninstall and re-install avast.
That's where my real problem began. the instructions told me to use the avast uninstaller from the avast website but to do it in 'safe mode'. Now the lappy won't boot to normal from safe and it's driving me insane. I am just about completely computer illiterate so any help would be welcome. Please though remember you are talking to the stoopid ie ME so any instructions really need to be step by step. Thanks for helping if you can.
Drogue  :o

Title: Re: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: essexboy on March 08, 2014, 11:58:25 AM

Did you complete the uninstall in safe mode ?

Title: Re: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: drogue on March 08, 2014, 03:25:21 PM

no it wont let me run anything, have tried chkdsk etc but every time i re-boot it boots to safe mode

Title: Re: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: Para-Noid on March 08, 2014, 03:52:18 PM

After you boot into safe mode run the avast uninstaller.
Then do a clean install.

Title: Re: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: drogue on March 09, 2014, 12:35:56 PM

It wouldn't let me install anything. and no matter what i tried it would only boot to safe. Have done a restore now. A bit dissappoinetd that avast seems to be the root cause of all this hassle but hey-ho move on, whats done is done.
Thanks to everyone who replied.

Title: Re: Lappy wont boot to normal
Post by: essexboy on March 09, 2014, 12:43:40 PM

Sounds like a stuck registry key that should have been a run once entry but somehow was not removed after it ran