I also can not get on line since I upgraded to home edition 4.6 It will not let me into the internet or into my hotmail email.

Both of these use the http port 80 which is monitored by the web shield, if they can’t connect it is very likely your firewall is blocking ashwebsv.exe, it needs to have access. Can you manually set permissions to accept ashWebSv.exe?

I am sure it has to do with the providers but I dont really understand them MY avast says 14 providers 4 running

There aren’t 14 providers, so something is wrong, click on the avast icon the Resident Scanner window will show all providers and you should be able to see which are running.