Hello!
Im going to go straight to the point: i'm trying to uninstall avast because its blocking me from launching a game on my computer(forza horizon 5).
The thing is,I believe i got fed up with avast about a year ago (because it was blocking random stuff) and straight up raged and try deleting avast folders.
Im pretty sure this broke my avast, but at the time, i thought it was uninstalled since it didnt show up in the apps and features anymore.
Right now i can see that avast is still here, for example i still have some folders named "avast" or "avast software" that i cannot delete (even in safe mode), and in the task manager,
in the startup "window" ,i can see some program named "avlaunch.exe" that i cannot turn off.
Im pretty sure the cause of my game crashing is this avlaunch.exe runnning everytime i boot my computer.
Now comes the big problem:
I eventually tried using avastclear to get rid of everything that could be left of my avast, but avastclear really just doesnt want to launch:
it's just loading infinitly and not doing anything.
While running avastclear.exe, i can see in the task manager something called "avast antivirus installer" running, that's taking a large ammount of CPU usage. I can not kill this task, it just tells me "access denied".
Do you guys have any idea of why avastclear isnt loading up and is just sitting here doing nothing?
This surely comes from the fact that i deleted random avast folders a year ago :/