Windows 98SE…Athlon 2100+ (1.73mghz), Asus A7V333 motherboard, 512mb 333ddr memory, ZoneAlarm 5.5.062.011, Avast! Home Edition 4.6.623, SpyBot S&D, AdAware SE Personal
When I try to use the browse function in Avast! to choose folders to exclude from scans, everything works fine up to the point I actually try to check a folder box I want to exclude, and then my system locks up and I have to do a hard shut down and then a scandisc upon reboot. Any idea why this is happening and how to resolve it? Thanks in advance…
it may take some time to accept a checked folder depending on the file size may be coz of that ??? it even happen to me…it appeard to be stuck…but give some time after u check that folder or file…so that it fully accept the change…then goto next one if u have to exculde…the files or folders…
Thank you all for your kind replies :). Troubleshooting - you nailed it ;D. The folder contains 43gb of mp3 files and it took almost 7 minutes for Avast! to finally accept this folder into my “Exclusions” list. I should have been more patient, but it never occurred to me it could take anywhere near that long even with a very large folder.
Technical, thank you for the welcome. You have already helped me with several other questions here, and I do appreciate it.
igor, it was almost 7600 files, mixed media, mostly mp3, but some wav. and mpeg files as well. Total of about 44gb. I actually went to a website and read posts for a while as I let Avast! work on this problem. It did finally take the folder into my “Exclude” list, and a subsequent scan verified that Avast! is actually excluding that folder. Thank you for your replies and help.
