David if you read this please reply,,,as a test of my ability to uninstall and reinstall avast using your suggestion for a "clean" uninstall,,I have an old laptop we only use if our good computer is having any problems so I thought I'd try it on that. I followed all the steps and when I ran the aswclear.exe I came up with the following list,,now this is not the list from our desk top computer that I statred this thread about,,
avast 4/home/professional
avast 4 server edition
Bart cd manager
avast for kerio
avast PDA edition
avast 32
avast managed client
avast distributed network manager
avast windows home server edition
avast 5 free/pro/internet security
avast 6 " " " " "
avast 7 " " " " "
avast 8 " " " " "
avast business protection (plus)
Under that list was the following
Enter path to folder where selected product is installed. Make sure that the path contains selected products program files. All files from this folder will be deleted.
So my questions are this,,if I were to continue to uninstall using this, out of the list I posted which of the above would i have to remove,,,next,,,do you have to do one at a time,,reboot and then do the next one,,and lastly how do I find the path to the folder for each one. Now like I said this is dry a run for me in case I do this with our good computer. I don't know what list I will find if and when I run the aswclear. For me this isn't as easy as it sounds,,,thanks David or whoever responds. I hope you can understand this post OK. I can't get back til later to check on any replys to this.