First my particulars :slight_smile: Im running Win7 64bit, I5 3.2 ghz with 8 gb of ram, machine is only a year old, and very stable usually. Iam using Avast Internet Security. Heres what happened: For some reason, my Avast just stopped working all together, I couldn’t reinsert my licence file, I couldn’t uninstall it(not even in safe mode), I couldn’t do anything with it. this happened right after a windows update. Coincidence? Perhaps, but probably irrelevant. I managed to uninstall it finally using the uninstall tool in safe mode. I reinstalled the program and everything seemed to insert and update fine, but my firewall will not start. I get a simple error message that says Unable to Start Firewall. Thats it. Nothing else. Should I uninstall and reinstall again? Something that Im missing?? Thanks for any help or advice :):slight_smile:

Repair avast!:

  1. Control Panel → Add/Remove programs → avast!
  2. Click on ‘Repair’.
  3. Follow instructions.
  4. Reboot.

That fixed it right up, thanks so much!!

You’re welcome.