Lot of people always have trouble upgrading their operating system. They either get a Blue Screen of Death(BSOD) or Error Message box. There are million reasons why we might get that error message and one such reason is our anti-virus.
Here is a method to disable the anti-virus through Device Manager rather than the anti-virus application itself.
1) Start >> Run >> Type Devmgmt.msc
2) This will open device manager. Click on View >> Show Hidden Devices.
3) Expand the category which says Non-Plug and Play Drivers. If you look at the picture below, you will see that I have an exclamation mark next Panda File Shield Driver. Now this is where we need to look. Just like Panda(I have Panda Anti-Virus installed), you will find the following.
NAV OR SYM - Symantech or Norton.
The moment you find the driver for your anti-virus, right click on the file and click on disable.
4) Search for other files which fall under the same category and disable them and restart the computer.
There that's the other way you disable anti virus, when your normal application doesn't allow you to do that.
