My first thread here, hope someone’s able to help.
When I boot up the computer the first time, every day, everything is really slow. I can open up the browser (chrome) but it can’t display any webpages, for example, only white pages. At first I had no idea why this was, but then I noticed that the Avast icon was missing from the tray bar, which is weird since it usually pops up there right away.
Then I looked over in the process tab of the task manager and found “AvastUI.exe *32”, so it shouldn’t have completely forgotten about starting, I suppose.
When I reboot the computer, which I have to do since nothing works, everything works perfectly just like it has for years.
I tried reinstalling it, didn’t help. I tried the “load avast only after loading other system services” setting, didn’t help.
It’s like Avast starts working but then completely locks down itself and the whole computer, does anyone know what could be the reason for this!?
Did you try unchecking the option ‘Enable rootkit scan on system startup’? Its under the same page where you disabled ‘load avast services…’
Also, make sure unnecessary services are not allowed to start up during the boot. It will help booting up fast and also take less time initialising the system.
Okay, so I booted my computer this morning without Dropbox on autostart and it did make the problem go away. I wouldn’t call it conclusive results since I’ve only done it once, but if Dropbox is indeed the villain in this case, is there anything I can do about it?
I need Dropbox on autostart, so disabling it forever is not an option but I can’t see why Avast wouldn’t be able to work with it.
Avast is waiting for all other windows stuff to load … So if dropbox takes forever then Avast will wait.
I noticed this with my dropbox, as soon as it loaded it started synching so Avast waited patiently for it to finish and then continued to load the last few bits
I have the dropbox icon on my launch bar area and run it from there after the rest have started… Makes for a 20 second boot
This happens even if the “load avast services only after loading other system services” option is not checked?
I still think it’s weird that this would happen all of a sudden when I’ve never experienced the issue before, something must have changed.
Dropbox should be fully synched now, so I’ll see if it still happens the next time I boot up.
EDIT: What’s even weirder is that the whole computer gets locked up when it happens… Why would that happen!?
Just for your information:
I was working with my system since version 9 on the same or at least similar problem. Always the first boot of the day takes about half a minute longer than all the following boots before the avast! tray icon appears. First boot of the day ~60 seconds, rest ~25 seconds.
Until the tray icon appears the system is very chewy and unresponsive on first boot. I tried repair, clean install, disabling everything from the troubleshooting page, (I don’t have dropbox) no success!
According to task manager avast! is working like mad during the last 30 seconds on the firts boot of the day.
What is avast doing different on the first boot of the day, what is it chewing on?
I have no idea! :-\
Sorry essexboy I did not mention that but I tried even this before by schwitching updates to “Manual Updates” with no success.
But so far as I know avast! is checking for updates on every boot not only on the first boot of the day, so it’s not likely to be the reason.
Edit:
Next thing I will check is to make the first boot of the day without network connection. Will report.
