Bitdefender Free

[roger_hawke]

Gus,

Malwarebytes uninstalled as per my previous post.
Zemana was uninstalled a while ago as it cropped up as incompatible whilst installing Bitdefender.

Gus - Best way to clean up desktop (5 instances) - ADW Cleaner/Addition/FRST64/FRST/Fixlog.

How complicated is a reinstall of Win7?
Can win7 be reinstalled without starting from scratch? (i.e. without disturbing existing programs/files etc?)

[jmarket]

Hello Roger,
Best way to clean desktop======Manually remove crap. Suggest you do not use tools like FRST without assistance.

That is odd. the Zemana I recommended some time back was the free version that would not have been running when you tried to install any programs??? It was to be used as a second opinion scanner which is all the free version does. Great scanner.

It is not difficult to reinstall Windows 7 and yes you will lose everything. A clean install is much better than trying to repair an old install. Just do be sure to backup all your pics, music and other files you want to keep. You could also do an image backup to an external drive, which would allow you access to anything else you have forgotten about that you may need later.

Do you have your original CD?

[roger_hawke]

Gus,

Not too happy/confident about doing a complete reinstall at the moment - maybe later.
Yes , I do have the original installation disks - 64 bit and 32 bit.
I haven’t installed Avast yet as Bitdefender is behaving itself at the moment??
All stuff deleted from desktop.

[jmarket]

[roger_hawke]

Gus,

Any chance you could provide me with an idiot’s guide to re-installing Win7?
Maybe a link that I could print off for the future.

Gus,

Bitdefender is still playing up so I have uninstalled using Geek and installed Avast.

As I write this, Avast full scan has been running for over 4 hours and is only on 3% so I have cancelled the scan.
Any comments?

[jmarket]

Hello Roger

Re Windows 7

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-clea...dows-7-2624917

do not use the upgrade option here.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-reinstall-windows-7-os-pc/

Suggest you try running Avast after a reboot, also make sure there is no other security app running. Also it is not uncommon with the default Avast settings for it to take an extended period of time to scan the first time Avast does a full scan. This is because subsequent scans wont have to scan some files previously scanned. Set it to scan overnight.

[roger_hawke]

Gus,

Did a full system scan with Avast on startup this morning and it took about 70-75 minutes - happy with that.
I think we can mark this one as solved.

Sincere thanks for all your assistance.(y)