Is it possible to disable avast for a short period of time.
If, as I suspect, you refer to avast’s resident shields, you can disable all shields by right-clicking on the tooltray icon, selecting “avast shields control”, and that will give you the option to disable them for various periods of time, up to “until reboot” or even “permanently” (obviously the latter’s not recommended). Regardless of the time selected, you’ll get a popup from the self-protection module asking you to confirm you’re doing it deliberately and the request isn’t coming from an improper source, e.g. malware.
If you only want to stop one or two of the shields, you’ll have to open the interface and select the specific shield(s). If you click on Stop, you’ll get the same choice of timer periods and the confirmation warning. I like to “pause” the files shield briefly if I’m moving a large number of (known good) files, since it’s much faster with the shield disabled.
Either way, you can easily restart all disabled shields at any time via the icon-menu, regardless of the time period you selected. This protects you if whatever you wanted it/them off for takes less time than you’d expected.
(Edit) Oops, almost forgot – welcome to the forums, you’ll find this is by far the best place to get help and advice.
Yes, using the icon on system tray. You can disable it for 10 minutes, for instance…
But, take care… why do you need to disable avast?
if you are referring to the setting tray on top of the screen, I right click it and it does not give me any access to the avast shields control. I tried left clicking it and I got the same results. no access to what I want. Any further suggestions
It isn’t at the top of the screen, but the bottom right corner of the windows screen (left of the system clock/time).
So when you right click on the avast tray icon do you see the same menu as in my attached image (click to expand) ?
Thank you. I see it
You’re welcome.
Like Tech said you really should have a very good reason to disable your anti-virus ?
It should be a very rare occasion, if this were for installing a program, for me that is the very time when you want your defences up.