AVG Installation Failed

During the installation of AVG security application, such as AVG Antivirus or AVG Internet Security, the following error may occur:

Local machine: installation failed
Initialization:
Error: Connecting to item registry root HKCU (username) failed.
Error 0×80070005 or Access Denied

The solution is to run the installer from the command prompt with the following parameter tagged on the end of the command line:

/IGNORE_USER username

The AVG application will hopefully now install.

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