I was able to set Avast 4 to manually update the virus database without the warning covering the tray icon,is there a way to set Avast 5 that way?Sometime on start up I have a crash at the same time that an Avast pop up says it was having trouble auto updating!
Create a task to be run with elevated rights:
\ashUpd.exe program /silent /nodetails
or
\ashUpd.exe vps /silent /nodetails
vps updates only the virus database
Thanks so much to everyone at Avast and this board for the great work that you do,all of you are tremendous with your knowledge,time and patience! This Dell 1720 Laptop /Vista has been a nightmare . I am a complete novice with computers and do not really understand where or how to use your reply. I think that you are talking about using the Task Scheduler ?But that is another problem with this Dell,when trying to download Vista Sp2 some files were moved and it would not go through so now when I try to use the Task Scheduler I get an error message!Everything else is working fairly well except for a crash at start up when I think Avast is trying to update!I have Sp1 and all other updates so after a year of hell with Dell and Microsoft they have no fix but a total new install,but with this Dell Media Direct crap there is a partitioning and install problem so I decided to leave it alone!SO,is there another way around ,Avast 4 had the box to check for just a manual update of the virus database and it worked fine , Avast 5 has the same box but why does Avast 5 say that something is wrong if I check the manual virus database update box?Thanks again ,any help is greatly appreciated!
urlnts, post a screenshot of the error message (the crash one). Let’s focus to solve the problem and not to tweak your system.