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April 12, 2007
Fixing AVG after Vista upgrade
After the upgrade of my Dell's XPS M1710 to Windows Vista, AVG stopped working. It keeps complaining that my key is not valid, which is strange since it's a free product.
Initially I thought this was a simple problem, simply uninstall then re-install. Well I was wrong, it turned out to be quite serious and common problems. Despite following suggestions from AVG forums which other people seemed to be quite successful, I can't uninstall AVG. Downloading a new executable, run as Admin, uninstall doesn't work. Installing it over the existing install also doesn't work too well.
Simply put, I should have uninstalled AVG before upgrading to Vista. Anyway I thought I was screwed and need to reinstall Vista from scratch, kinda a drastic method. I'd rather not.
Well the solution turned out to be quite simple. Suddenly I realised what if I supplied AVG with a new and valid license? So if you double click AVG's installation, just before the install starts it'll show you the license (generated I presume) for you. So copy that license into a notepad. Reboot Vista, AVG will complain about the license thingy. Paste the license that you took down earlier and voila, it's all good.
Posted by vhadiant at April 12, 2007 07:55 PM
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