I am not a great fan of these so called utility programmes as sometimes they can do something other than you thought, and anyway most changes can be made within windows itself. Although to be honest I do use some tweaking programmes purely to save me playing with the registry, but I only use ones where I can read the changes made to the registry before they do it
You can download the Avast PDF user manual from with the Avast GUI … Go to the support tab, select download the user manual, then select your flavour of Avast. But if you have any other questions then just ask
To open a log file… Right click the file and select open with… Select Notepad and you are done
As IE is integrated into windows it is always advisable to have the latest version even if you do not use it, as it will also update some system files
You can run any download in a sandbox by downloading it to the desktop. Then right click the file and select Run sandboxed
Turning on the PUP element is user choice, you may get a few more alerts but you can make a reasoned decision about it
How is the computer now … Are you ready for a tidy up ;D