Afternoon all
I had Avast Free Antivirus installed (7 i think), all going well, picked up a few issues, easy to use, was really happy with it. After a while it stopped auto updating, and manual updates wouldnt work either. I got the message saying it was updating but then it just froze.
Nothing seemed to fix it so i gave up and removed Avast, with an aim to reinstall. I used the proper removal tool which said it had worked correctly.
I tried to re install Avast Free 7 from the Avast website but upon trying the install, got the error message 'The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142).
I read a few posts on here and it seems to be because some old files are left behind from the previous version? i tried the removal tool again, then also searched for 'Avast' and removed any found files and folders manually. I still get the same problem. Any ideas? any help appreciated.
I really liked Avast apart from it stopped updating. I would definitely like to try it again.
Thanks in advance