Major difficulties with AdwCleaner v. 7.0.3.1

I am helping a friend clean a grossly infected computer. Windows 10. Uses McAfee AV.

He ran Malwarebytes 3 without difficulty and it cleaned with no problem at all. I do have the log if needed but cannot find a way to attach the text file

He then attempted to use AdwCleaner v. 7.0.3.1 but it would not complete cleaning and received a box with notification that a problem had stopped the clean....

ADWClean 7.0 (7/22/17) crashes in "Post Action"

Long time user with no previous problems.  Windows 10 Pro ver 1703-15063-483.  Standard HP Lappy w/ i5 and 6gb RAM.

Goes along fine almost completing then crashes during "posting " (didn't get the rest of the message.  I don't see any logfiles in the \ADWCLEANER folder it created...maybe it crashed b4 creating them.  There are windows dump files e.g.-"adwcleaner_7.0.0.0.exe.2852.dmp" if that'l...

adwclean 5.031 crashing on XP/SP3

Just like the rev from a couple weeks ago, runs a couple seconds, then crashes.  5.028 - same.  5.030 - OK.

 

fyi

Dave