At first I thought the “slow-ness” is because of the specs… but Bob, according to your sig you have 4gb RAM and I’m guessing you have a decent processor + a good HDD ? Then how can it take so long ??? Mine used to be high ( the entire boot, not only Avast, but after installing soluto the total boot time ranges from 1:10-1:50 (minutes and seconds ;D) Avast loads in 20secs(max)

But today I tried soluto on a friend’s laptop - it was pretty old, 2gb ram, 2ghz dualcore processor and it had a LOT of applications running at startup, still everything loaded in 1:40 and after delaying some it boots in just 1minute… He has Avast free 6.0.100 and using windows firewall…