Running Windows 7... Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition 8.0.7... previously had no problems with this program on this OS... now Ad-Watch Live refuses to initialize itself... keep getting message to "restart computer to finalize installation of Ad-Watch Live"... restart doesn't help, and no documentation on the Lavasoft website... I come here hoping some very smart person will able to help me with this

Best solution I can think of is remove Adaware and use Malwarebytes which is vastly superior

Definitely switch to MBAM. Like Mike said, MBAM is far more superior to Ad-Aware, which is bloated and slow.

I'm surprised Ad-Watch is the only issue with the AE build, the whole package won't even install on some computers.

why replace ad-aware with malwarebytes? keep both no harm in that

There is no harm in keeping your old car once you have brought a new one. But it takes up space & chances are you wont be using it,

well if thats how you feel but ad-awares scanner is very good imo and it only takes about 30 secs to do a quick scann its also extremely light on resources with real-time or not. So thats my opinion on it

No real helpful responses there...



I have a 500gb harddrive that's around 95% free, so no biggie there

Interesting. I had the opposite problem. I couldn't get it to stop running - and eating up all the CPU. Once upon a time it was a clean little, well-behaved app but that was before the birth of the monster, Anniversary Edition. I had to get rid of it and that wasn't easy either. It will never darken my hard drive again.

Malware Bytes, on the other hand, is sweet on the system.

Ad-Aware came crap at the end of 2005. use Malwarebytes'