Hi Yanto, XP Home SP3 here, Avast 5.0.545 running perfectly, as did 5.0.507.
Have you disabled any of the services in XP?
Tried updating to SP3 (and all subsequent updates) and then installing Avast?
Anyway, since my Win XP SP2 didn’t run properly then i upgrade to SP3, but still facing the same issue till last evening.
I didn’t disable any services of my win xp, and i need to make sure what is the causing of this problem?
Whether avast! need some services should be running on the machine to support avast engine?
I tried with manual update already, but still the same. And the weird things, i also tried at my friend’s machine which is already infected with some malware but avast! can run properly. My friend OS is XP Pro with SP2 and his avast can running properly.
Do you know what is dependency service of Win XP Pro needed to support avast engine?
I am still not found what is the causing of this matter, avast 5.0 still won’t run on my machine.
Last evening i tried to checked for the dependency and i found that on my machine doesn’t have FltMgr at ASWMonFlt and DCOM Server Process Launcher and RPC Endpoint Mapper at RPC.
Is there any alternative way to fixed this issues?
wondering how long it’s gonna take until Avast acknowledges that V5 isn’t fully compatible with Windows XP (SP2/3). Another example here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=59602.msg502302#msg502302 and there are tens of other posts about avast services not starting, or web shield blocking web access etc… on XP/sp3. I know it works fine for some on XP, but wouldn’t it be about time to end the compatibility joke, or call it the compatibility fairy tale if you prefer >>> Avast 5 runs like s**t on many (I didn’t say most, because I have no idea) XP systems, period.
Nothing wrong with my XP Pro SP3 system and avast5 either.
Lets not loose sight of the fact that this is a support forum and the greatest majority of XP users that don’t have a problem don’t come here to say so.
1 the fact that a majority of “free version” user don’t post doesn’t mean they don’t have problems, they’ll just switch silently to another AV and won’t bother to come here to report.
2 even if XP has that market share still, the Vista/Seven user base is large enough and more of them would come here to report if there were similar issues as what’s experienced on XP. Again, the forum wouldn’t be invaded by masses of Seven/Vista posters, but the amount of Vista/Seven complainers is just really small, very small, too small indeed on the forums, and this can be interpreted too :
Your advice has been working in my machine, i just wondering why this could happened with OS WIN XP PRO 2002 SP3?
Because i also being testing with my cousins notebook which is he also using WIN XP PRO SP2, and avast can run smoothly without any issues in there.
Hi guys,
I am so suprise that everyone give respon in this thread, well this should be consider by ALWIL team for OS with WIN XP since most company in Indonesia still using WIN XP because they have some agreement with Microsoft Indonesia or they are more familiar with WIN XP than WIN 7.
I am just affraid if this happened with user who want to use AIS, how to solved it?
Whether user need to install avast Professional edition 4.8 first, and then we replace directly with avast 5.0?
It won’t be a good solution for user.
I’ve never had a serious problem with any version of Avast! I have ever tried. They have all run flawlessly on XP SP3. The only “problem” I had was having to select the option to delay the loading of Avast! services in order to get the tray icon to appear. I don’t have that option selected now with the latest version and everything is fine.
I don’t think Indonesia is a special case in regard to XP being much more widely used than 7 (or Vista). I’ve dealt with a few glitches (mainly slow loading of tray icons and sandbox instability) since I started installing AIS 5 on XP SP3 machines in our office in January so I too was reluctant until version 5.0.507, to upgrade “everyone” from 4.8 just for the sake of it and thankfully, since then I have not had any problems with other people’s PCs, and not seen a problem with the free version. I’ve now changed all XP and Vista machines I know of from 4.8 to 5.0 and everyone is happy.
Having said that, my own main home-use XP SP3 PC is still occasionally slow to start but I put that down to negative interaction between avast! service the large number of TSR/tray icons “required” by other family members, e.g. I think the ITunes sych manager is looking for an ‘iwhatever’ for some time.
Hope this helps you decide the best option for your users.
Avast 5.0 Free edition can’t be installed on my Windows XP SP3 PC.
I had no installation problem before (with avast 4.8).
To install v. 5.0,I first uninstalled v. 4.8 then run Avast Cleaner and after restarting to complete uninstallation process; I executed Avast 5.0 Setup but no GUI window for Installer appears though i can see “avast.setup” process in Task Manager.
i tried running the installer again, but the only thing occurs is duplicated “avast.setup” processes.
and so i can’t even see Avast Installer window to proceed in installation process.
(the same problem occurred once when installing Avast 4.8,but at Second execution of Avast Installer, the GUI window appeared and i was able to Install it)
