Yeah, I’m telling you… try Instant Messaging as well…
I hope someone from Alwil will find soon, where is the problem…
Cheers !
My instant messaging provider has been active ever since install. I will try shutting it down and then starting it up and rebooting to see if it remains active.
Are you guys all using the xml storage?
Thanks.
Hmm… Instant message provider works fine for me. So for me it is only the P2P provider and Network Shield(Which Vlk fixed).
One interesting thing I noticed though…
If I open on access protection control and shutdown ALL the providers one at a time by pressing terminate buttons… then click OK…
Then reopen on access protection control… and just start ONE provider… like say… Internet Mail provider… then ALL of the providers start just from me starting ONE provider. This seems like strange behaviour to me.
Yes Vlk, I’m using XML… see screenshot (of course, if this is what you mean…)
Cheers !
This behavior (or bug ???) was being discussed here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8016 
Great news on my side !!!
All problems with avast! not-remembering-providers issue, solved after latest build update 4.5.498
Hurray !