Can I make avast announcements quieter?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I currently have earphones which don’t have their own controls. The volume on my computer is set to average. Often when listening to music I get announcements from avast to say there has been some sort of security download. My ears are virtually blown off by these announcements! They are fantastically loud. Is there anything I can do to turn them down?

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Settings > Sounds.

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Tech, even the non-voiceover ones are quite loud…

Canna W,
You can, but it means editing, and replacing the files. This is a little tricky because of the self protection, and because of the locations. Not impossible though.

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Indeed, I’m not saying the opposite. They’re loud.

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if you’re on Seven, you can do that, see screen shot :wink:

edit: you’ll only have access for a short while to the Avast setting during and a couple of minutes after an announcement happened.

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Not on mine…

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I edited my post, see above.

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Ah ok, and it seems to remember that as well

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yeah I was wondering if a setting change would be retained (I didn’t test)and you seem to confirm that it is.

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Yeah, I lowered it, and then did some scans to get the sound to be played…just realised though that I kept the sound window open, so might not be. I’ll check it.

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A new setting would be ideal, like the Popups in 5.1, but now’s probably not the best time to ask for that.
So thanks for the tip, Logos.

Edit: Oh. Hopefully it’ll save the setting.

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np :wink:

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Thank you so much for your suggestions! I really appreciate your help.

The only sound I hear regularly is the automatic update message - that is the one that drives me nuts.

Therefore, under “Enable avast sounds” I have unticked “Automatic update”. Under “Voiceovers” I have unticked “Use voiceover sounds (when available)”

I think this should stop the problem. I don’t mind being alerted when something out of the ordinary has happened - but getting loud voice messages for each and every update was unpleasant. Hopefully this will now stop.

Thank you again for your help!

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Ok, lowered it, done a scan, then raised it to full. THe volume seems to be retained. But I suppose we will have to see over a longer period of time.

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Mine just updated. I halved avast!'s volume in the Mixer and I’ll reboot now. When I’m back up I’ll run a Quick scan, check the Mixer again, and return to report.
If it’s persistent after a restart then we’re good.

EDIT: It worked. Twice. Once at 50% and once at 20%. Couple folder scans instead, not that it matters. avast! 5.1.889, OS Win7 x64.

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Thanks for the tip Logos. I had downloaded a free wav editor and reduced all of the sounds. Glad to know there is another way of doing this. Would be nice if there was a normal, medium, and low wav file that we could select through the GUI.

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Nice find Logos :slight_smile:

Greetz, Red.