How Do I Effectively Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019?

If you have no idea how to correctly remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019 in Windows, find solutions on this page.

Avast often bundles their programs in one installer, so after the installation you may find several other programs that you don’t even recognize. The most annoying is that they give you a lot of pop-ups, and you’ll have to close them every five minutes. For reasons users have been seeking advises to remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019, but many have resulted in failures. Hopefully through reading this page, you can successfully work it out.

Regular Steps to Manually Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019

First of all, make sure you’re using an Administrator account. If your system never had a second account, skip this, and start the removal right away:

1. Close Avast Free Antivirus first.

Stop the Avast programs from running in the background no matter what. It may not be necessary towards the removal of some programs, but just in case.

2. Open the list of currently installed programs.

Windows 7:
Open the Start menu > Select Control Panel > Click Uninstall a program

Windows 8/8.1:
Right-click on the Start button > Click Programs and Features

Windows 10:
Right-click on the Start button > Click Programs and Features

3. Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019 via the Programs and Features.

Click on Avast Free Antivirus > Uninstall or Double-click Avast Free Antivirus to activate its default uninstaller > confirm the removal > wait for the wizard to finish the process.

4. Follow the prompts to proceed with the removal.

Click Yes/Next button to continue, if you don’t want to reinstall the program, when being prompted with “Whether to keep your personal data,” just select No.

5. If you don’t want to reinstall the program, you can choose to remove its bundled programs including Google Chrome, by performing the above steps.

6. Open the Windows Registry Editor.

Windows 7:
Open the Start menu > Execute “regedit” in the search box

Windows 8/8.1:
Point your mouse to the bottom-right corner > Select Search > Execute “regedit” in the box

Windows 10:
In the bottom-left corner of your screen, execute “regedit” in the search box on the taskbar

7. Delete the vestiges to completely Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019.

Before doing this, be sure you have uninstalled all the Avast programs via the Programs and Features.

Then navigate to these folders and delete:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Avast Software

To check for other possible remaining entries, on the navigator select Edit > Find…, then enter “Avast Free Antivirus” to find the related file(s)/folder(s), right-click it(them) and click Delete to completely remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019 from your PC. Doing this will also remove all your personal settings on the program, just so you know.

8. Reboot your PC to take effect.

Then check your system tray (right end of the taskbar) and Task Manager (hit Ctrl + Alt + Del to open), if Avast Free Antivirus is not there then the removal was successful.

For any questions you want to ask about how to remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019 in Windows, just leave comments at the bottom of the page.

Safely and Effectively Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019

This is a small-sized professional Windows cleaning utility to easily remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019. With this utility you don’t need to access this and that. Steps are simply as follows:

1. Click on the green download button here or visit the homepage to try out Max Uninstaller.

(When installing something, whatever the program is, I suggest putting on any other hard drives instead of the C: drive (system drive). Then when you have to re-install the system, things you previously installed would still be there, and you only need to repair their registry entries. At the meantime, C: drive space can be saved for better running performance.)

2. Double-click the desktop icon to open it, you will know what programs are currently installed on your PC. Find and select the Avast Free Antivirus icon, and click Run Analysis to scan all the related files.

(The tool will finish scanning the files of targeted program within a few seconds.)

3. In the list presented, tick all the items displayed belonging to the toolbar, and click the Complete Uninstall button.

(Then it’s time to delete the written registry entries from your system.)

4. A window will show up telling you “Please wait while it initializes the uninstall process.”, after which click Scan Leftovers > and Delete Leftovers at last to completely remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019.

(At last, you can click “Back to Step 1” to refresh the programs list, check whether the program has gone. Play the following video demonstration for a quick view of the whole process.)

If you don’t want to reinstall the program, you can choose to remove its bundled programs including Google Chrome, by performing the above steps.

Video Demonstration – Remove Avast Free Antivirus 2019