Technical,
Why did I surprise you? Am I showing a bit more intelligence than usual. hahaha :smiley:

Right now, dorkus has done just about everything I can think of, short of a reinstall of the OS.

Dorkus,
The one thing that you can try is to go into the Control Panel/Add Remove/Avast…and click on Remove. You should now be given the option to Repair Avast. Try the repair. At this point, I will be doing a bit more research if the repair does not work. That would mean that a file is corrupted within Windows XP.

Techie