i looked in services found the Lavasoft Ad-Aware Service that i was supposed to look at for the walk around to fix my problem..

well the problem is i had installed ad aware a few years ago on a different hard drive and the Ad-Aware Service listed in services is pointing to the old harddrive location, i no longer have that hard drive and i cannot change the path to executable.. nor can i remove the service and run the install again. what do i do

If you never uninstalled the old version before the new AE installation, it might cause more problems if other things point to the old HD location. I'd start over with a clean uninstall first. You can do this yourself if you're experienced with finding/deleting folders, files, and registry entries; or you can use programs like these useful free tools. Revo Uninstaller on the highest setting will remove all traces of Lavasoft/Ad-Aware before you reinstall.