I am using Avast Home Edition with a dial-up connection to the internet. I want to schedule the program to automaticlly dial the Internet and update nightly.
Does anyone know how I can do this in Windows xp?
Thanks for your help!
avast doesn’t dial out period, so you would need to schedule something else to connect that does dial out. Then avast will see you have a connection and check for updates, if not it won’t try to update. This solution is very messy and I suggest you let avast take care of your updates during your daily browsing, etc.
avast uses a cumulative update process so it is very fast and there is no real need to do it at night. I also have dial-up and shortly after I connect to the internet avast checks for updates and notifies me (pop-up notice) an update is available. I click the notification window if I want to do it then, otherwise I do it manually later but mostly then and there. I have my updates set to notify but not automatically download and install, which I prefer, especially on dial-up with the possibility of early disconnects/dropped connections.
Thanks for the tips - that helps!
Happy to help, welcome to the forums.
Also make sure that you let Avast know via the settings/connection that you connect via dial-up and not a lan connection.