Nothing serious but whenever I restart my pc, the avast seems very slow to startup, takes around 1 minutes to start.
After that, nothing error appears, just as normal.
When avast not yet started, i do open the menu and it shows something about RPC procedure fail.
I just reinstall my pc using windows XP pro service pack 1.
It is nothing harmful, just curious.
Check the scanned count of the Standard Shield just after the avast icon has stopped and you will see that it scans a lot of system and program files to ensure that you are protected.
After that, nothing error appears, just as normal.Sorry I don't understand why should you be expecting errors?
When avast not yet started, i do open the menu and it shows something about RPC procedure fail.Wait until avast has completed and this probably won't happen, however if it continues: I would suggest that you try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, avast! Anti-Virus, Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow. You need to be on-line to do this.
As posted a lot of time here, try Startup Delayer to control the windows startup (Windows 98\Me\2k\XP). You can set some applications to start very after the boot (logon) itself. 
Thanks for the help, i try not to tinkering around windows again. Since it is only a slow startup and nothing harm come to it, i might just wait for the avast to start spinning before proceed.
solved the slow startup problem, seems the network IP causing the trouble. Now it is startup fast. 
Daivd… Ive been searching thru the threads trying to find some help with my own startup delay problem. I can see that its Avast scanning files at startup and Im beginning to think that its not only scanning my C: drive, but is also scanning an external 80 gig drive I have attached (USB) to this system. I do not want it to scan that drive… I already know everythings safe on it. Do you know of any way at all to disable that or to TELL aVast which drives to scan at system startup?
I have Startup delayer installed… it did nothing to help me with this problem. It only delayed aVast coming up and created an even WORSE stall… 45 seconds worth of waiting lol
Ive tried doing a repair… tried a whole lot of things…
p.s. Im running Win XP Home SP2… and have Segate Firefall as well… not a lot in startup, just the normal stuff… I keep it pretty clean
For me I couldn’t find rhyme or reason as to what avast scans on startup, there seems to be absolutely no logic to it.
It scans files in my C:, Windows, System32, Program Files and my D: Program files (I have programs installed on a different partition also), but it scan some program and uninstall files that I don’t use from one week to the next week.
I have no logical explanation or answer from avast as to what is scanned at startup, all very frustrating.
I have a second HDD (internal) but it doesn’t go near that, so something must be creating activity on the external hdd, what do you have on it? Does it need to be connected, can’t you do it after boot (a pain yes)?
I have totally disabled my firewall at startup and enable it after boot, now my total scanned files on boot is approx 260 and this goes up by 450+ when I start my firewall.
I wouldn’t recommend disabling your firewall unless you are on dial-up or can guarantee your system can’t connect to the net on startup or very shortly after.
I use it for backups… for this machine as well as one in another room, and a laptop. Also have a lot of software programs on it, ones Ive collected for years and don’t want to have to search all over again to replace them. (and since I dont always trust drives I have some of them backed up to CDs as well lol )
Yes, it would be a total pain unconnecting and reconnecting it as the USB port is on the back of the machine and not easily in reach.
I have totally disabled my firewall at startup and enable it after boot, now my total scanned files on boot is approx 260 and this goes up by 450+ when I start my firewall. I wouldn't recommend disabling your firewall unless you are on dial-up or can guarantee your system can't connect to the net on startup or very shortly after.
Yeah, I won’t do that as I am on cable
Perhaps a little USB extension cable, so you don’t have to fumble behind the system.
Perhaps he is slow because of the high protection, configures in protection resident-takes away mark to verify programs when they will be opened.