After running my adware and spyware and etc.programs with the standard shield paused…(which is the norm to do so the programs don’t conflict with each other)…i ran my avast! and nothing found as usual and which is good…doesn’t running avast!turn on the standard shield or do i have to do it manually and do i have to run avast!again since the standard shield wasn’t on and still paused? :o :
hello avast!world and thanks for the help and advice in the past… 8) ;D
Whilst the resident on-access and on-demand scans use the same scanning engine, I assume they are totally independent, e.g. when you run an on-demand scan, you select what you want scanned and when you click scan, it calls the scanning engine with the parameters, etc. So I don’t think that it would start the paused on-access standard shield.
I much prefer to re-enable it myself that trust to any automatic process (even if it existed), the consequence doesn’t bear thinking about. Much like you cancel a turn indicator in your car after completing a turn rather than let the auto cancellation of the turn signal do it…
However, there would be a simple (there we go again using that word ;D) test, ensure you are off-line, pause standard shield and do and on-demand ‘folder selection’ scan that wouldn’t take long but would be fine for test purposes. After the scan has completed, check and see what the standard shield setting is.
thanks davidr…i usually restart standard shield after running my other programs but being human as all of us are… I hope…and human error…i forgot to restart it…maybe in a future update of avast!the automatic turn on of providers could be done or is that necessary or not needed??have a good one ;D 
maybe in a future update of avast!the automatic turn on of providers could be done or is that necessaryThe problem is avast isn't clairvoyant and it doesn't know why you paused the provider and when you have finished what it was you paused it for. So it would be difficult to second guess the user and implement.
Yes it may well be possible to re-enable the on-access scanner when doing an on-demand scan, but that wouldn’t get around the fact that until you do an on-demand scan standard shield would still be paused.
When I’m going to do a scan with another security based program I click the avast icon and pause standard shield from that interface and I leave it open on the screen. So when I have completed the other scan/s the avast providers window is right in front of you providing (no pun intended) a reminder to re-enable the standard shield.
thanks davidr…and the avast!world…