How to stop a driver from running in Windows PE

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My computer has unfortunately succumb to an error caused by AVG Anti-virus and upon boot of my computer it tells me that certain .sys files are either corrupted or missing.

Upon searching the directory it told me they're in (\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\avgboota.sys) which I saw nothing.

I was wondering how I could stop this driver from running by editing the Windows 10 configuration through Windows PE?

Connor Simpson

Posted 2015-08-29T11:48:04.273

Reputation: 1

Are you sure that driver is loading, because normally WinPE wouldn't load that type of driver, it has no need for it. – Ramhound – 2015-08-29T15:44:44.120

WinPE isn't loading the driver. Windows 10 is. I want to know a way of disabling it through Windows PE. – Connor Simpson – 2015-08-29T21:32:07.923

The simplest solution would be to just delete the file, provided you can mount the system drive, but you don't have to use WinPE to do that. – Ramhound – 2015-08-29T22:36:13.003

I do because I cant boot into Windows at all nor can I do it through safe mode since it wont let me or give me any start up options since that error prevents me from doing it. – Connor Simpson – 2015-08-30T12:59:14.660

Answers

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Boot into safe mode and uninstall/update AVG.

Windows PE isn't required for this task.

yobbo

Posted 2015-08-29T11:48:04.273

Reputation: 11

I cant boot into Safemode through Windows 10. Thanks for your help though. – Connor Simpson – 2015-08-30T12:55:22.020