Shutdown problems

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

I am having problems with Avast and Windows shutdown.

Most times I shutdown my machine hangs on the ‘Windows is shutting down’ message. Upon reboot, I have to go through Scandisk :frowning: This does not happen everytime I shut down, although I’d say it happens about 90% of all shutdowns.

This problem has only started happening since Avast was installed. I uninstall it and everything is fine - no problems at all. I have tried repairing Avast as well as reinstalling but the problem persists. I have tried both pausing and stopping provider (via the icon on start bar) before shut down but it makes no difference. I have also applied the windows shutdown patch.

I have tried shuting down from Start/Shutdown, using only my keyboard shortcuts and I even tried a shutdown shortcut (C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32 SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 1) but nothing stops the problem :frowning: I have also left the ‘Windows is shutting down’ screen there for 10 minutes before reboot to see if it would clear in time. Nothing works :frowning:

I am running Win98 SE with Avast 4.6.603 Home edition, Extreme Toolkit version 1.9.4.0, Activeskin version 4.2.7.3 and VPS file 0509-3.

Any ideas?

TIA,
Paj.

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Does it help if you switch avast! database to XML? (e.g. by opening the \Data\avast4.ini file and changing the line Database=ODBC into Database=XML).

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Hi,

I will try that now and let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the tip :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Paj.

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Hi,

Just a quickie to say that seems to have sorted out the problem. Thank you :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Paj.