mchain
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OK. ;D
Since this forum is an “exchange of information” forum, one is free to disregard information not pertinent to their issue(s). Here we have information that will at least address the speed issue you have with your system, and make it more reliable at the same time. It will put it back to where it shoud be if this were to be done.
You’ve been fortunate to have had a system run as this one has for 8 years, most don’t, not without repair or replacement of hardware parts.
Recommendation:
- Don’t do in-place upgrades within the same version number. Only do version upgrades when they come in, and then do a clean install using the aswclear.exe tool given above. You’ll thus avoid having to always reset the automatic update feature in [the] XP [system] until you upgrade versions.
- Automatic Update is a feature of avast!. It does not cause damage to the operating system, nor to the system, is not essential to the operation of avast!, and thus can be turned off. Default setting is to have this feature turned on and active. Which is why this feature gets turned on when you update or upgrade. Don’t do that.
Fix what’s really wrong with the system, and that feature will be nil/minimised in impact, plus you will have better real-time protection against the latest known malware than with manual updating; and thus get the protection you need and deserve.
You can always forget XP, install a replacement HDD and run Ubuntu, since the machine is so old, and still do what you need without an antivirus program. Ubuntu is a free linux operating system.
It’s not avast! that is the root of the problem. It is only a symptom of the real issue present.
[EDIT:] Fixed ambiguous statement.