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Unfortunately Windows 8 Restore Blocked by Avast Antivirus
« on: November 14, 2017, 08:52:10 AM »
Hi there and greetings to all :-)

Please could someone help me.

A recent Windows 8 update has prevented my tablet from booting up - I cannot access Windows as it just immediatly shuts down again upon start up

I have tried to restore my Thinkpad 2 Windows 8 tablet PC but unfortunately I keep getting and error that says:



"System restore could not access a file this is most probably due to an antivirus program is running on your pc. Temporarily disable your antivirus and retry system restore."

Error code: 0x80070005

Unfortunately I bought the tablet PC 2nd hand so the recovery partition had already been wiped.

Please if someone could help me I would be extremely greatful thanks!!!!

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Re: Unfortunately Windows 8 Restore Blocked by Avast Antivirus
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2017, 09:01:38 AM »
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
Avast Wissenswertes (Downloads, Anleitungen & Infos): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=60523.0

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Re: Unfortunately Windows 8 Restore Blocked by Avast Antivirus
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2017, 08:08:24 AM »
hi there and thanks for your reply! 
 
please help me
 
should I make my new thread under viruses and worms?
 
however please note this is not a virus or worm it is a problem with avast blocking access to windows recovery 
 
should I post in the viruses and worms section anyway?
 
thanks
 
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Re: Unfortunately Windows 8 Restore Blocked by Avast Antivirus
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2017, 08:11:31 AM »
should I post in the viruses and worms section anyway?
If you can't boot, yes.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
Avast Wissenswertes (Downloads, Anleitungen & Infos): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=60523.0