Avast antivirus is able to provide complete security to your device through its different components like Shield, Anti-spam filter, Firewall, privacy components and many more. But there are times when one or more components of Avast displays “Stopped” status and the user is not able to manually start these components through Avast user interface.
The problem arises because of the limited or inconsistent permission to write to disk, Windows registry or system folder, and due to this, the user will face problem in Avast setup installation, update, delete or overwriting its program files and registry entries. In case any of its file or entries got corrupted or deleted then you will face issues in running Avast antivirus or its components. But with proper knowledge, you can perform the given steps and resolve this issue.
• First, you need to uninstall Avast program from your device and for this, you can use Avast Uninstall Utility. In case, you have any issue in the un-installation process then dial at Avast toll free phone number UK.
• You also need to delete other Avast folders from your Windows C drive.
• Then you also need to manually uninstall Avast Firewall Driver if that is there in Properties of your Network connection.
• After that, you need to reboot your computer and then restart it in Safe Mode.
• In the Safe Mode, look for and delete all the files starting from “aswNdis”. These files will be available in “C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore”.
• In case you are not allowed to delete these file in the safe mode then you need to take the ownership of these files. For this, you might need the help of technical experts. To connect with them please give us a call at Avast technical helpline number UK.
• This is not it; you also have to delete all offline content and cookies from your web browser. You can find the instructions for the same on its vendor’s website.
• Don’t forget to temporarily disable any Firewall software.
• Now you can download and install the latest version of Avast antivirus.
• After that, insert the license number of your product to activate it.
•Remember that you need to turn on the Firewall for better protection.
The above-mentioned steps are only applicable for Windows 10, if you use any other version of Windows then instructions are different. For more details, get in touch with experts.
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