Hi thekochs,

I had to get into it through the Trust Center in Outlook 2007 and then Manage COM Add-ins. It would not let me un-check avast! Free. When I tried it gave this message:

The connected state of Office Add-ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed.

I guess it would let me remove it, but didn’t know if I should do that.

Yes, when I disable avast! Free at the little tray icon/shield, that’s when I can then send Outlook emails without a problem. If any part of avast! Free is enabled, I can’t send emails. Again, I can receive, but can’t send.

I agree with your comments, definitely. And I am usually one to wait and wait and wait (and wait) before installing avast! Free program updates so the bugs can be worked out. But having the new computer, I wanted to get avast! Free on it right away (and decided well, I’ll also update my older computer to the new version as well). If I stick with avast! Free, I’ll never do that again.

I’m like you, I almost live in Outlook. I’ve run my own business from home for 17 years and deal with my clients almost exclusively over email. And I use Outlook to pull in email from several different web email accounts (and sending through one account). To deal with this Outlook issue, I either have to disable avast! Free to send or go directly to the actual web email account to send.

Since I was able to restore (System Restore) my old computer back to before I installed the avast! Free update (which fixed the problem), I’m fine with Outlook on that computer. (And hopefully the way I chose to do that won’t come back and bite me!) But don’t have that option on the new computer.

Just can’t decide since I have a little wait time on getting it fixed on the new computer if I should just wait to see if a fix comes through or go ahead and go back to an older version by uninstalling using the process provided in this thread and getting the older version at filehippo.

The help here on this thread to try to fix this has been great. Just wish avast! people would at least acknowledge on here that they see we are having these various problems and they’re working on them. Silence (or almost silence) is not always golden.