I love Avast to death, but with the new update to Avast 7, I’m having an issue. My laptop, Alienware M11x, has 2 graphics cards, an Intel and a Nvidia. When I want to switch between the two, I have to close all programs that use the graphics card (Or at least, that’s my understanding.), and it will not allow me to switch until I do so. Until Avast 7, Avast did not prevent me from switching graphics cards, but now I have to disable the self-defense module and end AvastUI.exe every time I switch.
Same issue. This new component is complicating the switching of the nVidia Hybrid Graphics on Ailenware M11x laptops. Please fix this. I am confused why an anti-virus application would need to access the graphics hardware…only apps that utilize the hardware are required to be closed before switching…
Thing is, I don’t find it minor: I’m stuck with the least powerful graphic card since I cannot kill Avast and disabling the shields is not enough (the process avastui.exe is the one which causes the concern). Granted, the UI is quite beautiful, but this is a problem to me.
Any fix or at least a workaround? Please do not include the “start in safe mode, switch the GC and restart Windows normally” as a workaround, since it is pretty heavy procedure…
I have an Asus UL80Vt which has Intel integrated graphics and a Nvidia G 210M that are switchable on the fly. Except no more. I am told I need to stop avastui.exe to be able to switch modes.
Except I can’t shut down avastui.exe through Task Manager.
I want to remove Avast until this is fixed, and install version 6. Is there any way to download and install the older program version?
I’d suggest you to disable self-protection module (in Settings/Troubleshooting), run regedit.exe, and create a new value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVAST Software\ExitInTray (choose DWORD, value=1). Turn self-protection on. Now you can exit avastui from its tray icon.
