never mind.

It was a Registered Service indeed and you can set it to manual in Control Panel>Admin Tools>Services. (in WinXP)

Avast is a great app with even more potential.

I know I’m going to get flamed for this but…Avast! seems to use too much memory/recources (as I’ve also noted users pointing out through the many posts I’ve read before posting in the forum).

The tray icon, AshDisp.exe uses way too much for example…specially for a systray applet that’s seperated from the main application ashServ.exe

maybe the next version will produce a leaner and meaner Avast! :smiley: