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Significant problems while trying to uninstall McAfee and Avast
I was troubled by the red dot and "X" beside some files in windows explorer so was recommended to uninstall my antivirus software because Windows Defender is sufficient. Running McAfee utility MCPR.exe the first thing that happened was I get a very small window almost impossible to read. See image with window in upper left corner. Then entering the security (capcha?) characters just continues to provided updated characters without allowing me to proceed.
Then trying to uninstall Avast my computer on rebooting gives the OS select screen (see blue image). Selecting the Avast option puts me in safe mode without instructions on how to proceed.
Booting into W10 still works but now Microsoft Word isn't operating properly, giving error messages shown in the other image.
What have I done wrong and how should I proceed? Rebooting continues to produce the same Avast boot option. Running MCPR.exe continues to produce the small window without allowing the uninstall to continue, and I continue to have problems with MSFT Word.