Have you stopped and disabled the aawservice?
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"Justin Thyme" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > A few days ago my paid subscription to Ad-Aware expired and Lavasoft,
> naturally, offered a renewal at the same price or I could subscribe instead
> to a free version. When I attempted to subscribe to Ad-Aware Free nothing
> worked properly so after several additional attempts I decided to delete
> Ad-Aware altogether, using Add/Remove Programs and Ad-Aware's own uninstall
> link. Failing that I tried a wholesale manual delete of everything that had
> Lavasoft or Ad-Aware as part of the name. In every case the stumbling block
> was a file named "aawservice.exe". The response was "access denied, disk
> may be full or file is protected." Well, the disk certainly is not full and
> I cannot see how the file is protected.
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> Safe Mode doesn't work any better and all my attempts have come a cropper.
> So, what's my recourse now? I want to dump the entire program and then
> decide if I would like to install the free version or something else.
>
> Your suggestions gratefully received.
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> Ken Bland
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