{"id":12649,"date":"2021-12-10T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=12649"},"modified":"2021-12-10T02:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:58:28","slug":"solved-avast-broke-my-laptop-please-help","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/security\/avast-broke-my-laptop-please-help\/40166.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Avast Broke My Laptop?! Please Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must say I don&#8217;t know much about computers.<br \/>\nI installed Avast, the free version, just because I realised I don&#8217;t have an antivirus since I last installed windows 8. Then I realised I installed, with Avast, some 3rd party things I assume, totally my mistake.<br \/>\nAvast asked me to do some checking\/updating (?) so it asked to restart my laptop and it&#8217;ll work before the windows user name appeared. I stared at a black screen with white text &#8220;working&#8221; for hours!<br \/>\nAll good until I open windows, try to uninstall 3rd said parties, I didn&#8217;t know from where exactly so I uninstalled Avast. Asked me to restart laptop again after uninstalling. Laptop broke. Goes to Automatic problem fix or something like that. I tried troubleshoot and everything else possible from that screen. Can&#8217;t go into desktop!<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m now thinking to install windows 8 again. My question is, is there any possibility that I won&#8217;t lose anything on my laptop? I don&#8217;t even know if I still have partitions and everything, since it won&#8217;t go to desktop. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>edit: Or maybe I could install windows over windows, back up my hard drive, wipe clean and install again?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>message edited by kate.z<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[56],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-12649","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-security"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}