I need to get my wife's PC fixed. I'm trying to minimize the chances of anything going wrong and messing the system up worse because of possibly conflicting running processes on a live Windows system, and I was wondering about an alternative to a clean boot.
The only way to fully disable my A/V is to uninstall it, a clean boot won't cut it. To make sure anti-malware software and other running processes don't interfere with Tweaking tools, is it viable to boot up to a PE environment (like MSDaRT or Hiren's) off of a CD and then run the portable version of the AIO? Or does Windows absolutely have to running?