After latest update avast comes permanently up with info screen

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

after updating to 7.0.1456, after booting i have to check each time a window, which tells me to check “Fertigstellen” but there is only “Beenden”. Next boot time the same window comes again! Please solve this!

Martin

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welcome to the forum. what extra windows does avast show to you? the program update? or that you can also get avast for your android phone?

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No,

http://www.esr.info/Window.jpg

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Please check your avast5.ini file and see if this option will help you

  1. Avast main GUI → settings → troubleshooting → disable the self defense module and save settings (don’t worry about the messages, accept).

  2. search for the file “avast5.ini” (even if it is version 7 of avast); EDIT the file with notepad. On Windows XP, the file is located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast
    On Windows Vista and 7, I am not sure but it should usually be in C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast

  3. in “avast5.ini”, look for the “[common]” section. There should be an entry named “ShowSetupOutro”.

  4. change the above entry “ShowSetupOutro” from 1 to 0 (zero).

  5. save the file and reboot.

  6. go back to avast main GUI → settings → troubleshooting → enable the self defense module and save.

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Hi,

the value was already “0”.

Martin

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Please add “IgnoreSetupOutro=1” below “ShowSetupOutro” value in avast5.ini, this is a temporary solution until we release new program version. Thanks.

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Thanks for that pk :slight_smile:

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I’ve run a search for avast5.ini and it doesn’t seem to exist in my copy of v7 and the popup screen is not a real problem but is getting a bit annoying.

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It’s located in Program Data\AVAST Software\avast folder (or in Documents in Settings if you use XP)

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In my case the line said “ShowSetupOutro=2” 0_o
Although mine does have the 2 checkboxes for chrome and the “finish”-button. I’ll try the suggestions offered here to see if that will make it stop popping up every restart.

Oh, my avast5.ini was located in C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5 for me(win7)

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You will also have to add the “IgnoreSetupOutro=1” line below “ShowSetupOutro” value in avast5.ini, as pk mentioned.

The reason your path shows C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5, is that you have only used update on the way through, if at any point you did a clean install of avast the path would reflect the changed company name AVAST Software and the \avast folder name.