Avast Home Edition not working with XP

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello,

I just recently updated an old laptop that had win2k and avast installed. It worked fine for many years. After updating to winxp the program doesn’t behave properly. Avast doesn’t start the Resident Protection. I change it on the options but when I exit the program it disables it again.

Is there another version of the Free Edition that I need to install? I’m currently running 4.8.

Any help will be appreciated.

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4.8.?.???.?^^

Could u pls continue?^^

Thanks^^

-AnimeLover^^

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[quote author=+AdDicT+ link=topic=47467.msg400436#msg400436 date=1249739006]
4.8.?.???.?^^

Ok. It’s 4.8 Home Edition.

Can anyone help?

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Having changed OSes you need to do a clean reinstall of avast.

Download the latest version of avast http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again. Use that when you reinstall. Ensure that you scroll down and select the avast direct download link for the English version and not Cnet as that is for an on-line installation (not what you want to do). - Direct download for avast Home, English version, http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe.
Download the avast! Uninstall Utility, find it here and save it to your HDD.

    1. Now uninstall (using add remove programs, if you can’t do that start from the next step), reboot.- 2. run the avast! Uninstall Utility, reboot. If step 1 failed it may be necessary to run this from safe mode, once complete reboot into normal mode.- 3. install the latest version, reboot.
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You could have problems to uninstall avast (as you should have uninstalled before upgrading the OS).
Let us know if David’s suggestions solve your problem.