How to Fix an AVG Uninstalling Problem

Last Updated: June 3, 2021 Tested

You have AVG...you want to uninstall it. However, when you do, here is what you get. The exact error message

Local machine: installation failed
Initialization:
Error: Checking of state of the item file avgcc.exe failed.
File opening failed. %FILE% = "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe"
Permission denied

Steps

1
Is your user account an admin account? ... you must be an admin to install / repair AVG.
2
Download the latest AVG Free installation package from [free.grisoft.com].

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3
Run the AVG Free install file.
4
Choose the Uninstall option and follow the setup wizard, when you get to the part to remove user settings, select it.
5
Restart your computer then...
6
Now reinstall AVG using the setup file you got in step 1 and update it.

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Method 1

Method 1 of 1:
If Problem Still Exists

1
But if still AVG is not getting uninstall then
2
Download SubInAcl and run the .msi file to extract it to a folder on your hard drive.
3
Using NotePad, copy/paste these commands into a file called reset.cmd (create it in the same directory that you extracted subinacl.exe to)
- Quote:
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
  - subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
  - subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
  - subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
  - then run reset.cmd
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Updated: June 3, 2021

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