avast seems to be asleep all the time

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi and Help please. I have installed avast home ed 4.6, registered, received and inserted my Lic Key numb. Then tried to set the settings and received the following error ‘program cannot set property into main storage’. ??? now what does that mean and how do I overcome it? Thanks Guys

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First check out this avast! FAQ answer http://www.avast.com/eng/other_questions.html#idt_1406. For avast! Pro users it is best to update the ODBC Drivers, Home users can switch to XML storage.

You can manually edit the avast4.ini file (using a text editor) and change database=odbc to database=xml, this is in the [Common] section.
Or you can try RejZor’s AEC avast! External Control program and change the database type to XML

Does this address your problem?