Following up, after doing the above, there’s possibly a slight improvement in load time but it’s barely noticeable. Out of interest, would disabling say, webrep, software updater, adblocker, improve load time?
There is nothing to stop you increasing the delay as I mentioned in my original post.
With exception of the software updater, these options are unlikely to make much difference at boot as they are only running when your browser is up and running (and that shouldn’t be running on boot.
The software updater may check its database, after the avast virus definitions update occurs as this is when the software updater database would be updated. So as you should be able to see this is a chicken and egg scenario, the software updater is unlikely to be doing anything until after the avast virus definitions update, which you are seeking to delay.
When you shut down your system presumably all programs monitored by the software updater would have been up to date (or you should have got a notification), so that shouldn’t change when the software updater database would be the same. Only until the software updater database indicates that one or more of the monitored programs requires an update, then depending on your setting would it be likely to go looking for the update.
I would love to try this David. But no matter what I just can’t fine avast5.ini anywhere. I have Windows set to show hidden files. I just can’t find it. I’m using Avast 8 (latest version) and Windows 7 64bit.
Well it has to be somewhere as without avast5.ini avast would be a bit stuffed in some areas.
Do you also have windows show all file types or you won’t see the .ini extension (file types) as by default it doesn’t shown known file types (which is plum crazy, known to whom).
See image extract of my win7 system.
Yea I had it set to show all files. I see other .ini files without a problem. Just not Avast5.ini. I’ve even searched and the search returns nothing. The closest I can find to it on my system is Program Files/Avast Software/Avast/Setup/INF/V5/Aswnet,ini. But Avast 5.ini just isn’t there. It’s no big deal. I wanted to try your suggestion but the OP said it only made a minimal difference anyway. So it’s ok. Thanks for your reply.
Not just to show all files, the crucial bit is show all file types, not just unknown ones. That is why I posted the image otherwise you may on;y see avast5 with no .ini but the Type column would show it as a Configuration settings.
Have you tried an explorer search for avast5.ini whilst it is in that location on my win7 system perhaps it could be in Users on yours. You could try making a change in the avastUI, Settings that would be reflected in the avast5.ini file which may create it if not present. AvastUI > Settings > Updates > Details and change the Auto-update interval from 240 to 120 minutes, that would need to be recorded in the avast5.ini.
Comparing against someone else’s effect may not reflect your system so still worth a try.
Yes I have tried searching with Explorer. Still doesn’t show up. The only thing similar to Avast 5.ini is what I listed in my previous post. It’s no big deal. Thanks anyway.
Edit- I just tried your last suggestion of changing a setting in Avast 8 to see if Avast5.ini will show up. This did the trick. Not sure why it wasn’t there before but I have it now. Thanks again.
You’re welcome.
I guess if all of your avast settings are the defaults then there wouldn’t be a need for the avast5.ini to store the changes, etc.
Under the heading [InetWD] I also have a line that reads “UseRAS=0” Do you have any idea what this means? My system boots up fast. But I’m trying to solve a problem where after each boot up Avast service hogs my hard drive for almost 2 to 3 minutes. This behavior started with version 7 and seems a bit worse in version 8. Once Avast 8 does it’s thing my system is as fast as it should be. Didn’t see this at all with version 5 of Avast.
It relates to dial-up and 0 = no/off leave it as it is.
Thanks again!
You’re welcome.
So just to confirm the adding the line in the avast5.ini as per the guidance above and also at http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/security/3137-avast-5-configuration-for-faster-start-up.html
Worked for me on windows 7 64-bit.
I’m on a quad core machine with 12GB memory, so no slouch of a machine.
I was seeing load times for Avast of 220 seconds plus in soluto with v long boot time overall prior to this, and following the setting change we’re looking at ~ 24 secs load time for avast.
I’d also tried the other fixes in terms of running the prefetcher setup in windows 7 which worked briefly following 6 reboots to train the OS again, but not so long after it went back to long boot again.
We’ll see how this goes with more time.
I set
AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds=360
Of course the file is stored in C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5
Thanks folks
No problem, nice to see someone use the forum search function.
A bit weird that you see this slowness on boot with a fast system.
Thanks for the feedback.