Apologies, Couldnt trawl through the entire posts, :-[ , Could we have an Exit option in the tray icon to exit from Avast completely, its not always we are connnected to the Internet / Access shared/external drives , that will allow me to unload avast from resident memory.
There is no need to trawl through all the posts, but there is no need to post twice about the same question, which I answered in the other post.
And you have that at your fingertips already, right click the avast 'a' icon, select Stop On-Access Protection, job done. To restart, the same drill but it will be Start On-Access Protection.