Avast Needs To Restart Your System!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I know this has been brought up before. I’m just wondering if anything new has come to light to correct this annoying problem.
Whenever computer (Windows XP) boots I get a nag message telling me “Avast Needs to Restart Your System . Restart now? or Later” So far I have Uninstalled Avast (using the Avast uninstall utility) and reinstalled latest release. Next, after searching this forum I have:

  1. Looked in C:/Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\setup\setup.log - setup.log Doesn’t exist
  2. Deleted C:/Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\setup\reboot.text
  3. Deleted HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager, “PendingFileRenameOperations”.

All to no avail. Still getting nag on boot.
The only thing I forgot to do was restart system after I had run the Avast uninstall utility. I went ahead and reinstalled the newly downloaded version.
Could this be the problem?
Thanks in advance of any help in this matter

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That could be the problem. Perhaps you should try again.

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Ok. I uninstalled (Avast uninstall utility) Restarted computer and downloaded and installed latest version of Avast. Stll getting the same nag.
After I uninstalled I tried to delete the whole Alwil folder from the program files. I could not delete this folder because asQuick.exe could not be deleted or renamed.

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The removal tool should have removed the folder. Did you use the browse button to ensure that the C:\program files\Alwil Software folder was in the small white box?

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From memory there was a reboot problem caused by NTFS naming convention Tweak (Ntfs Disable 8dot3 NameCreation if set to 00000001) was causing a reboot problem. Setting the below Reg Key dword value to 00000000 solved the constant reboot problem for me.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
“NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation”=dword:00000000