Well if its not an obvious option in the program here is what I would do. Generally programs that run prior to the Logon Screen booting in XP use a specific key (good ol’ session manager).

Browse to the following location in regedit

HKLM\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\Session Manager

on the right there will be a key labeled “BootExecute”

Doubleclick that key and you should see at least the default value of “autocheck autochk *” which is scandisk. Somewhere below that should be the path to avast (Alwil Software) with options (sorry I can’t tell you what they would be or what the line will look like, bit i don’t know however it should be obvious that it is avast) but anyway delete that entire line and you won’t see it again.

This assumes you are on Windows XP.

I’m sure the avast tech guys have an easier way to get it done, but I’m 90% confident that this will work for you. Considering the 5% off chance you are not on XP you know 95% confident is where everyone wants to be :slight_smile: