I just want to add here that the suggestion about using “add/remove” avast and restore; you forgot to mention I needed to uncheck the avast self protection in settings…and I also want to add the incredible hassle avast is just to uninstall.

Now I have xp sp 3 on my computer and it hasn’t made a difference in getting avast updater to work.

While trying to figure out how to get avast to update, after removing it and reinstalling it still didn’t work. So I uninstalled it again but as I didn’t want to be without an antivirus program running I decided to give AVG a try and quickly downloaded and installed AVG antivirus.
Not only did it install without a problem, it updates without a problem.

I am wondering if avast hasn’t over complicated it’s progam some how…but as I have always used Avast, I will continue hoping to be able to utilize it again sometime soon and remove AVG at that time.

Again, thanks to all that tried to help me here in this forum.