I was wondering if there was something i could do to fix this issue, in the pull down menu, the schedule a boot-time scan stays grayed out. and i can’t use it.
It is dependant on your OS, it is available for win2k, XP and Vista, bit NOT win9x or winME.
What is your OS ?
Im running Vista home premium, it’s a clean install, 1 week old.
Hmmm… strange, it should be there.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r232/GOTFrog/avast.jpg
This is what im getting
Whilst I don’t use Vista, couldn’t this be a problem with a limited user account not being allowed to initiate a boot-time scan or rather reboot the OS ?
Are you running on a limited user account ?
Works on my Vista under limited user.
Thanks essexboy, I was clutching at straws, I have never seen this in an OS that supports the boot-time scan, weird.
It somehow suprises me that it works under a limited user account (I mean, the menu item won’t be grayed, but scheduling the boot-time scan requires writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, which is not permitted for ordinary user…).
Anyway, back to the original question: the boot-time scan is available on 32bit version of Windows only; are you using Vista 64bit?
Im using 64 bit version, well guess i wont be able to run boot-time scans. Will there be an upddate in the future to bring it to 64bit os
Well, hopefully yes, but I think it will take a while; some problems have to be solved for that.
When I pull up Avast Home splash screen, at the bottom, Avast runs a memory + startup test, before the main Avast program screen comes up. Is this not the boot scan? I am using Win98SE. Thanks.
It’s only available on Windows NT/2k/XP and Vista 32bits versions. Sorry…
No this isn’t a boot scan as you are still in windows. It is a scan of processes in memory and files that would normally run on start-up (startup test) but it isn’t a boot-time scan it isn’t available for win9x, winME.