Kaspersky installation ended prematurely because of an error 2012

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Kaspersky Antivirus and Internet Security products have commonly suffered with an error during the setup process which prevents install and asks for a reboot to continue. After restarting, the problem remains:.

Here we show you a selection of solutions we have found to get around this error and allow your Kaspersky product to continue its installation. There is a registry key which can be created when uninstalling an older version of Kaspersky and for some reason this key gets left behind after a reboot. Just follow the simple steps below to remove the key from the registry.

Now try to install the Kaspersky product as normal and hopefully the error message has disappeared during install. Although Kaspersky products have recently been much better at detecting these issues, they can still cause the install process to fail. Kaspersky also have their own antivirus removal tools webpage with similar tools and recommendations.

Download and run the AppRemover executable and wait for the results of the system scan. After a reboot you can try to install your Kaspersky product again. This solution has been known to work in several cases and is also mentioned in a Kaspersky help page. To remove this file:. Reboot the system and retry the Kaspersky installation. Original title: Antivirus. Moved from Windows.

Here we show you a selection of solutions we have found to get around this error and allow your Kaspersky product to continue its installation. There is a registry key which can be created when uninstalling an older version of Kaspersky and for some reason this key gets left behind after a reboot. Just follow the simple steps below to remove the key from the registry. Now try to install the Kaspersky product as normal and hopefully the error message has disappeared during install.

Although Kaspersky products have recently been much better at detecting these issues, they can still cause the install process to fail. Kaspersky also have their own antivirus removal tools webpage with similar tools and recommendations. Download and run the AppRemover executable and wait for the results of the system scan. After a reboot you can try to install your Kaspersky product again. This solution has been known to work in several cases and is also mentioned in a Kaspersky help page.

To remove this file:. Reboot the system and retry the Kaspersky installation. Download Take Ownership which is a right click menu entry to gain ownership of files and folders.

Double click the reg file in the archive to import the data into your registry, then navigate to:. The other file in the zip archive can be used to remove the Take Ownership entry if you have no more use for it.