AVG says I already have antivirus but I don't! Help

I hope someone here has some input. I have a laptop with windows xp home that originally came with Mcafee anti virus. I used that for maybe a year and decided to go with avg free. I UNINSTALLED Mcafee using their uninstall tool. I then installed AVG free a couple of years ago. Yesterday, I went to update AVG and the update didn't take, read on forum to unistall AVG and reinstall it, which I did the way I was recommended to do so. Now AVG tells me upon install that it detects another antivirus on my computer, it strongly recommends that I uninstall this before proceeding. But other than Mcafee and AVG, there has never been any other antivirus software on this computer. I have a wireless router that has a built in firewall, High speed DSL with Windstream and the windows xp home edition firewall enabled as well. I have Spybot S&D, Advanced Windows Personal Care, Ccleaner. My laptop runs beautifully, there really are no problems. But it just bugs me that AVG says I have another anti virus and perhaps something could go wrong down the road.

 

What does it say is installed when you look in the Security Center?

 

when I go to control panel/security center. all three items are "ON". Under "antivirus" it says windows has found more than one anti virus on this system with one that reports that it is up to date and virus scanning is on. It doesn't really say what is installed. Nothing in add/remove programs though.

 

Try following these instruction to reset the Security Center.

 

Much appreciated!

I followed those instructions, rebooted and going to the windows security center it tells me that my anti virus is working and is up to date. So this was why AVG was reporting another anti virus when in fact there wasn't one?

 

It could have been

 

It happens sometimes with XP...

..especially if you used mcafee, f-secure, symantec and avg