disable auto startup at boot...how to

Hi I am running avast 5.1 on a win2k pro system.

Avast auto starts at boot up and places an icon in the system tray.

I am unable to find how to prevent this.

I wish to run Avast only on demand.

Any ideas on how to stop this auto launch please.
Cheers,

  1. Why don’t you upgrade to version 6?
  2. Why do you really need to run only on demand? avast is very low on resources…
  3. You can set for the icon does not be shown in avast Basic properties.
  4. You could disable the shields permanently…

Why do you need to do this?

Why do it ?

Because even with all the shields disabled it slows everything down so much.

Cheers,

Yeah? Which other security program is interfering?
avast disable is disable, it shouldn’t interfere…

Hi, only other security program resident is ZoneAlarm but all aspects of Avast is enabled in ZA program control.
Cheers

Remove the avast entries of ZA settings.
Boot.
Allow them again.

Hi, done all that.
Time will tell if there is an improvement.

Will get back after testing
Cheers,

Immediate gut feel is that it is running faster even with all shields running.

Boot is definitely faster (by stop watch).
Programs seem to load faster and word and excel sheets also seem to open and save faster.

I am wondering if one of the many and frequent Avast updates did something un-to-ward ?
Cheers,