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I’ve done everything requested, and more. I have tried to get avast working properly in several occasions. Sometime it works fine, but on some systems it develops problems.
When I come here, the only help I get is “repair, reinstall” and if that doesn’t work, it must be the OS, or I’m doing something else wrong.
Last time, after getting this response, I yanked avast off and put something else on; later, I checked back and it turns out that some files were indeed omitted from the avast distribution. (.NET runtime)
I’ve spent over 6 hours today, rebooting, reinstalling, debugging, and fussing with this computer.
The only thing that has made everything work right has been to uninstall avast, and switch to AVG for virus protection.
I now have no problems. No system lockups, no reboots. Avast was the only thing malfunctioning on this system.
Ok, now, on scanning below, I see the scanreg instructions. Somehow, before my last post, all I saw was “That could indicate a Windows problem.” Unfortunately, I have run out of time, as I need to leave town.