AVG 8.0 install error
I ran into this error while AVG Free 8.0’s installer was running checks:
Local machine: installation failed.
Initialization:
Error: Registry value is not a BINARY type.
Cause: The key PendingFileRenameOperations in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager is of the wrong type, REG_EXPAND_SZ instead of REG_MULTI_SZ.
Just deleting the key in Session Manager isn’t enough - as it’s vaguely virtual and linked to one of the other control sets in HKLM\SYSTEM, you need to go through all of them and replace the key with one of the correct type.
References: [1] [2]