I usualy don’t have the interface enabled because it takes up to much disk, but last night windows updated (useless thing didn’t even ask me first) and when I started it up today avast started with it, its usualy disabled for startup, and it wouldn’t let me reset it to disabled, and I cant close the interface through task manager(it wont let me) any help on disabling the interface so it doesn’t lag me out?
What are you talking about uses up too much disk space, give an example of what size it is and how you are attributing it to the interface ?
The avastUI is the user interface, it isn’t a part of the avast protection as such and shouldn’t take up much space. Essentially it would only be the size of the avastUI.exe and some log files associated with it.
The user interface isn’t clearly defined, so I don’t know how you would determine its size taken. For sure in consideration of the full installation the interface would be very small.
You also talk about “any help on disabling the interface so it doesn’t lag me out?”
Lag and disk space are totally different, what does Task Manager say AvastUI.exe is using ?
The avast self-defence module is designed to prevent avast being easily disabled by malware. You would have to disable that to be able to stop the avastUI.exe in task manager.
To disable the avast self-defence module (avastUI > Settings > Troubleshooting), which if you had already disabled the AvastUI you wouldn’t be able to access that very thing you seek to achieve.
IN windows XP you can easily disable the avast temporarily. First disable the self protection (from within avast troubleshooting settings) then
use MSCONFIG to disable the avast service and avast UI startup item and do a selective restart.
But it should be used with caution, you might forget you left it off and then you’re exposed.
His post is typical of one not used to posting in forums, they always leave out the details
My XP install, just the file and web shields uses up about 600MB
The avastUI uses around 41.000 kB which (even on old systems) isn’t much at all.
usualy I have it disabled on this http://prntscr.com/a0evpi and http://prntscr.com/a0ewcl is what I meant by it taking up to much disk, it settled down eventualy but in the morning it goes up a lot, and It causes me to lag on the games I’m trying to load up in the morning
Neither of the pictures is showing that avast is using a lot of diskspace.
And neither shows how much the UI is using.
The AvastUI.exe (interface) that are talking about is completely different to what your images are showing. The Avast Antivirus is the main scanning engine/service (avastSVC.exe) disable that and you have no AV and obviously no protection.
usualy I can have it closed out so I couldn’t access it right away, i’d have to open it from my desktop. but it stopped using a bunch of disk up, I think it was just trying to run updates and there was no message on them telling me about them
But according to your images, it has nothing to do with the avast Interface, that is the main avast service in your images. That is as I have said the main avast service responsible to all shields and scanning. So I can’t see how disabling the user interface (avastUI.exe) would make that much difference. I’m at a loss as to what too suggest.
By comparison the avastUI.exe figure is extremely small. I can’t really mirror your Task Manager as both system are on different OS versions.
Also just compare your avast antivirus use against lots of your other running APPs and they are much larger.