
The AVG Removal tool aka AVG Remover which used to remove AVG Antivirus from your computer when normal uninstall process from Control Panel fails, is no longer working, the tool hasn’t been updated by Avast after acquiring AVG. But the company no longer offers AVG Uninstall tool on its website, which makes users to difficult to get rid of AVG from their computers, and affected users visiting AVG support forum and other sites that covered AVG Removal tool download found in no mans land.
Just to let you know, like Avast Antivirus has Avast Clear in place, Avast software has readied AVG Clear to remove AVG antivirus and the product traces, but the company doesn’t display them on AVG website and you won’t even found this tool when you search on Google or Bing.
How to Uninstall Avast from your Computer?
If you’re wondering what’s happened to AVG Remover?
The tool when downloaded and ran, giving ‘AVG Remover did not find any active AVG active product within your system. Press the “Exit ” button to close the application or the “Run Anyway” button to run AVG Remover and remove any leftovers of AVG products.”, even though AVG was installed on computer.
Download AVG Clear – AVG Uninstall Tool
- Download and save AVG Clear from below to your computer
- Run it, the tool prompts to run it from Safe Mode in Windows, click No as the tool has compatibility issues with Windows.
- Check whether AVG Uninstall Tool is showing the correct paths for Program and installation directories, select AVG Antivirus product you’re using. For e.g. if you’re using AVG Free, select ‘AVG Antivirus Free’ and click Uninstall button.
Note: Since AVG 2018 no longer comes with Zen installed, unchecking ‘Uninstall Zen and Framework’ may not have any effect.
4. When the product was successfully uninstalled message is displayed on your screen, restart your computer.
Do note, you need to use or run AVG Clear or the Avast Uninstall tool only when you not able to uninstall AVG from Control Panel Programs and Features.
So if you’re encountering any error or facing any issue while uninstalling AVG, instead of AVG Remover, you should download and run AVG Clear.
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