Yeah, I’m sure, and been doing this for a while ;)…and besides, I’m on XP…and I just realised what it was that was screwing around with Avast. Avast was being interfered with by SnoopFree Privacy Shield. It was blocking screen access to AvastUI.exe so not really Avast’s fault. So it seems Avast needs access to the screen to work its stuff. I’ve just added Avast to SnoopFree’s Access control list so it can read the screen and now the setting stays disabled…and I also now get a warning from Avast which I hadn’t seen before asking me if I wanted to modify the ini file or something…and that was before disabling the self protection. Well at least I know Snoop is working for me ;D

Anyhow, thanks Asyn and spg SCOTT