Event Viewer in my Win 7:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
Avgldx64
This is the train of events that lead to trouble:
1. I had AVG free for months and never had any problems with it.
2. 3 weeks ago I downloaded IObit Ultimate and Iobit Malware Fighter to compare it to AVG. That's when the problems began. First, AVG crashed. I tried to uninstall and install it again, but new install failed several times, so I gave up. I uninstalled it completely, but I think I saw two folders with AVG name somewhere on my laptop left.
3. I had to uninstall IObit in Safe Mode, because it was causing tremendous slowness and freezing which eventually lead to shutdown and start failure, so I got rid of that.
4. I thought I solved it, because for a week or so everything got back to normal - speed, performance.
5. The last two times I had boot failures, and the diagnostics showed a message "Bad Driver" something. So, I launched the event viewer and found the above-mentioned bad driver causing boot failure.
You have probably estimated my tech level by now. This little Dell Inspiron is my working horse, I need it, and these problems are scaring the hell out of me. What do I do?
With Avg uninstalled, I do not see how I can find this bad driver to uninstall it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
Avgldx64
This is the train of events that lead to trouble:
1. I had AVG free for months and never had any problems with it.
2. 3 weeks ago I downloaded IObit Ultimate and Iobit Malware Fighter to compare it to AVG. That's when the problems began. First, AVG crashed. I tried to uninstall and install it again, but new install failed several times, so I gave up. I uninstalled it completely, but I think I saw two folders with AVG name somewhere on my laptop left.
3. I had to uninstall IObit in Safe Mode, because it was causing tremendous slowness and freezing which eventually lead to shutdown and start failure, so I got rid of that.
4. I thought I solved it, because for a week or so everything got back to normal - speed, performance.
5. The last two times I had boot failures, and the diagnostics showed a message "Bad Driver" something. So, I launched the event viewer and found the above-mentioned bad driver causing boot failure.
You have probably estimated my tech level by now. This little Dell Inspiron is my working horse, I need it, and these problems are scaring the hell out of me. What do I do?
With Avg uninstalled, I do not see how I can find this bad driver to uninstall it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!