I’ve noticed that Avast and my computer is slow to load at startup and then for a little bit afterward. It did not behave like this with MSE. So I read about it and adjusted a few settings and now the computer and avast are as fast as ever.
I selected “load avast services after system services” in troubleshooting. Then I changed to manual updates by selecting “ask when a manual update is available” under virus definitions update. Then I deselected “definition auto updates” under status monitoring in appearance to give avast a normal appearance.
So, when avast needs to update, I think it is supposed to give me a little popup. My question is what pop up setting needs to be activated (I deactivated all of them i believe) so I will get the popup warning?
Thanks.
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Thanks Essexboy. I set all my pop up times for 3 seconds. I will use the dial up modem setting you have and keep the updates enabled.
Do you know how long it delays after starting up before it does a definition update with the dial up modem setting?
Thanks essexboy. I saw another thread from 2010 which described editing the ini file but I’m not sure if this info as described is still valid 4 years later. I’d love to set it to update at full blast 5 minutes after startup.
As said previously, I set it to update at 5 minutes post startup and it’s not 5 minutes yet but I assume when it does update it will give me the popup to let me know?
Also, I notice in settings/update that it now has “my computer is permanently connected to the internet” selected … I guess this reflects the .ini file change of assumealwaysconnected=1?
It hasn’t given me any popup indicating an update. I did update it earlier today so maybe that is why? Maybe all it does is check in at 5 minutes? I’ll restart it later and then it will have an update for me and then I can see if it obeys the 5 minutes. I’ll update here.
It will check after the five minutes, if there is no update then you will not know as it keeps quiet about that. Current VPS is 140628-0
It will then check every 4 hours thereafter, however, streaming updates are happening all the time. So far 263 in the last 24 hours
Cool. My computer (vista home edition) is a lot faster now - not just the startup, but just in general. It seems to be faster than when I was using MSE. Thanks for your assistance!
BTW, I had no problem doing this on 2 vista laptops and 1 XP netbook.
My little windows 8 netbook however kept giving me access is denied messages when I tried to save the .ini file. Disabling avast did not help. I got around this by going directly to notepad, right clicking on it and choosing run as administrator, and then from there opening the .ini file, editing and saving it and it saved. I mention this in case anyone gets an access is denied message as this may help.
I’m not getting any definitions update popup at all. I have “show notification box after automatic update” checked with a 5 second duration on the popup but it has never happened so far and it does appear to be receiving updates.
In Silent/Gaming mode, I see that “silent if a full screen application is running” is selected. Does that mean if the FireFox browser is running full screen popups will not show?
