i am experiencing slow youtube buffering after installing avast!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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i just reinstalled my win 7 64 and

i am experiencing slow youtube buffering after installing avast!, i tried disabling some of the real time protectection,but it doesn’t seem to work!

i was on avg before , but i thought the sandbox,and the gaming zone feature was quite attractive to me! so i switched to it,
it’s good , a awesome gui, and less resource hog, but there’s something with my downloading speed!

thanx

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From http://thewebatom.net/uninstallers/security-software/ download the EXACT removal tool for you previous AV tool. Better to run it under Windows Safe Mode to avoid some little potential conflicts.

Then reboot again, test and report back.

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actually without removal of avg in the first place, i reinstalled win 7 , so i guess all the registry key associated with avg was gone, and there’s nothing related to avg on my entire disk, so i guess that dedicated uninstaller will not work .

downloading speed is same actually, but youtube buffering got much much slower.

should i try to uninstall avast and see if it actually works? and if it does speed up my youtube buffering…??

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If you reinstalled Seven over the previous installation, nobody knows what really happened with the remnants.

Running the correct removal utility for your old AVG under Windows Safe Mode has no “cons”. Try that step first and test again your system.

If you want to uninstall Avast and use the uninstaller for Avast, you may try it too.

I don’t know what is causing the slow connection, so the only thing you would waste is some time to download the required files, uninstall, remove, reinstall, configure, some reboots in between, and test.

Remember to run the removal utilities for AVG (and eventually for Avast if it turns to be necessary) from Windows Safe Mode (In theory, not necessary, but in practice, we have seen some conflicts avoided when running them under Safe Mode).

You could also try speedtest.net with Avast active, and then temporarily disabling shields (while, in both tests, any other program should be closed and stopped). But you should know that any difference can NOT be automatically related to Avast itself anyway.

Whatever you do, please report back.

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ok sure thing,! just 3 days more

and ill report back! ( i am in the middle of something now)

and thanx for all these help!

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wait did you do a fresh clean install or a repair install? if you did a clean fresh win7 install there will NOT be any trace of avg left…

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Hi.

Make sure that you have removed AVG completely from the computer. You can use the removal tool from AVG.

If you have 32 bit O.S download and run this.

   http://download.avg.com/filedir/util/support/avg_remover_stf_x86_2011_1322.exe

Else

   http://download.avg.com/filedir/util/support/avg_remover_stf_x64_2011_1322.exe

Once you remove AVG you need to reboot the machine.

Download the latest version of avast! and reinstall it again. This time the issue will be fixed.

Hope you are happy with avast! Have a wonderful day Good k@rma!

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yes done it, finally,

avg was not the cause, avast was messing with filtering certain stuff, like trying to scan every active webfiles in realtime on my HDD , (added exception)

fixed it though

and now my youtube’s back.

thanx for the help people