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XkR73

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How do I stop avast from running?
« on: January 03, 2011, 06:06:11 AM »
I need to reformat my D:\\ drive on my computer, which, coincidentally, is where Avast! is saved. To reformat, I need to stop avast from running.

I can't find an option to do this.
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Offline Tarq57

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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2011, 06:25:44 AM »
Just uninstall it from the control panel, since reformatting the drive will effectively delete it, anyway.

Have the installer file saved elsewhere for easy installation after the drive is formatted.
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 06:32:29 AM »
thanks.

why is it always the simplest things that evade you at half five in the morning? :p
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 07:29:36 AM »
Are you sure you want to be Tired In Charge of a computer format at 5.30?  ;D

Honestly, at that sort of time of day, I'm doublechecking pretty much everything that might be important. I'm crap in the morning.

(I used to think I was an evening person, but things never got much better after lunch.)
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2011, 02:07:29 PM »
Still having issues reformatting. all i want to do is get rid of ~57 gb of pure unadulterated crap!
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2011, 05:28:17 PM »
What is on drive D: ?
It isn't your Boot drive by any chance ?
As strange as it seems this does/can happen by design or accident.

How are you trying to reformat ?
What errors are displayed ?
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2011, 09:35:54 PM »
i managed to fix it. turns out i was running more programs than i thought off it.

The reason i needed to reformat the drive was so that i could free up space to organise my music collection and picture collection, as every other drive has about 500mb free... i collected a lot of crap ^-^
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Re: How do I stop avast from running?
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2011, 10:54:01 PM »
OK, glad that you have resolved it.
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