I take it that no one has a good solution to solve the bug then. Besides re-installing that Asyn mentioned, which would probably solve the bug but would remove the possibility of scheduling a quick scan on 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and other good options for scheduling that still exist somehow, though I can’t change them.
If that’s the case I am not sure if I keep using Avast for long, though I have used it for many-many years…
Edit: I registered here in Dec 2011, so I must have used it for at least 7 and a half years now!
Personally, I’ve never run scheduled scans for many years now. So, the lack of ability to change a scheduled scan start time or days it will run in the newest version, those carried over from updating older versions of avast, is not an issue.
Aysn’s advice is sound: Completely uninstall the version you are currently using, and all historic settings carried over from earlier avast installations will be lost and you will wind up with avast default settings in all areas, including any prior scheduled scans.
If you want to reinstate your schedule scans you can if you do a clean install.
Best option is to run these sort of things when you are using your computer, imo. No settings to worry about, nothing to lose or reset. Just do on-demand scans only, as needed and when needed.
Surely if you reinstall, you can then create some custom scans each sceduled as you wish. Custom scan can be full scan, quick scan or whatever you want it it be (well almost).
Well, if the scheduling settings after the re-install will be the ones that I can currently see, which seems logical then I won’t be able to schedule as I wish at all anymore.
Also, if I wouldn’t schedule scans as someone mentioned above I would barely ever run them, I am too lazy for that, also it would take time and wouldn’t be as convenient. Scheduling them has pretty much always worked for me and this way I don’t need to think about scanning (except for the time I set up the schedule), I only check the results briefly and that’s all
