Sorry (or not), I´m sure. The residents are running :D.
There is an ‘a’ in blue ball in my system tray. The Program tasks shows that the programs and services are running.
I can run the Avast scan too.
Probably, I have - like you said - deactivated the driver which allows residents to scan DOS programs for viruses but, now, and just now, they are running.
I reboot after the installation. I just said that I ‘look’ into the config.nt file before rebooting. 
Thanks, Avast team.