Season’s Greetings.
I would like to know how I can have Avast 4 on a bootable cd that would scan my entire system. I’m running WinXP Home.
All the best.
I’m afraid you cannot put the “ordinary” avast! 4 Home/Pro on a bootable CD - the program expects to be installed, have writable TEMP folders, etc., i.e. it wouldn’t work.
One possible solution would be getting our BART CD (which is exactly what you are looking for), but it’s meant for system administrator, i.e. rather expensive for a home user.
I can recall the good old days when I was running Win98 and had a floppy drive; I’d make a boot disk, put avast on it and run it from the floppy 8)
Other than BART, suggested as one possible solution, are you saying that there are ‘other’ viable options?
Kind Regards.
OK, I probably chose a bad wording.
I should probably have said that I didn’t know any otherway…
Theoretically, if you had full control of the content of the bootable CD (e.g. of the Windows registry contained), you may be able to copy all the settings from an ordinary computer that has avast! installed. If you’d set up a RAM disk in the OS, you may even simulate the TEMP folder… but that’s just a speculation, I don’t know anybody ever having tried that.
avast! was not meant to be used that way, I’m afraid.