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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Russo" data-source="post: 932577" data-attributes="member: 23023"><p>Have you looked at your Registry editor? ,I often try many Av"s (always gone back to Kaspersky, guess its the one I feel most comfortable with) anyway if you click on 2nd one down HKEY-Currant User then scroll down to software, there you will see {sometimes} programs with some remnant on your computer,right click and delete,also Try HKEY_Local_Machine and click software and once again there often is remnants there same right click and delete. If not sure how to get to registry editor just type in your lower left search bar regedit and it will pop up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Russo, post: 932577, member: 23023"] Have you looked at your Registry editor? ,I often try many Av"s (always gone back to Kaspersky, guess its the one I feel most comfortable with) anyway if you click on 2nd one down HKEY-Currant User then scroll down to software, there you will see {sometimes} programs with some remnant on your computer,right click and delete,also Try HKEY_Local_Machine and click software and once again there often is remnants there same right click and delete. If not sure how to get to registry editor just type in your lower left search bar regedit and it will pop up. [/QUOTE]
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