I miss the old voice overs from the old UI version of avast.
They sounded more ‘computer generated’.
The new girly voice just doesn’t sound as serous. Can I get the old one back somehow?
If you kept the .wav files for the old one, I guess you could transfer them over. You’d have to rename them, I’d think.
The folder they live in (Version 5) seems to be “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast5\sounds”. I quite like some of the old sounds, and had customised some of them, using wavs from Startrek.
Haven’t felt the urge to do that with this one yet, so don’t know if it will create problems. You’re on your own, there.
Can you upload the old ones for me somewhere?
I don’t have them any more, they were deleted along with the rest of my Avast 4 installation.
You would have to re-download Avast 4, uninstall 5, install 4, copy the sound files to another location, uninstall 4, install 5 again, rename the Avast 4 sound files to the same names as used in 5, then add those files to the folder I mentioned above, answering “yes” each time you were prompted "confirm you want to replace (this file) with the new (old) version.
Lot of faffing around, I’m fairly confident it would work.
It is not necessary to do all that, Bob has the sounds files at his site. If you do a search for “How to change Avast sounds” you will find a thread where the site is located. Simply download the file you want - open Avast - go to settings - troubleshooting, and untick the self defense mode. Then go to the sounds folder as stated above. In the sounds folder open the 1033 folder. Replace the current sound file with the old one being sure to keep the name of the file the same. Now go back and re-enable the self defense mode.
jwa, the next program update (or repair) will bring back the original sounds…
Where is “bob’s site” ?
nevermind…
Really?
Just tested with a repair…the sound I used was left as it was…not sure about program update though, need one of those before I can test 
Scott… strange, the repair should test the files and replace them.
I think an upgrade should do the same…
Who knows… :
Indeed ;D
Hmmm, maybe we could get a custom sounds feature implemented (so that they don’t get overwritten on upgrades?) 8)
The sound files indeed do have the “no-overwrite flag”, so if you replace them with your own, the avast updater won’t touch them…
So does this mean changing the sounds wont affect avast!'s performance for protection whatsoever?
Thanks^^
-AnimeLover^^
No all it will do is change the sound that you hear when say, avast! is updated, or a scan is finished…kinda like changing your ringtone…the phone still works
@Vlk,
Thanks for confirming
Thanks for answering me^^
Nothing wrong with asking in a field ur not adept ;D
-AnimeLover^^
You’re welcome
I know, I do it all the time ;D
-Scott-
Just to be 100% clear, the new sounds are going to be replaced in the next release build?
To be honest I rather like the v5 sounds and would prefer to keep them.
a! v5 is a whole new product and I don’t see the benefit in incorporating the old v4 sounds that I associate with with the old version.
Would be taking a step backwards IMO. 
Sorry for dropping in but do you mean that Avast 5 sounds are being thrown out (in future versions) or do you mean that V4 sounds will be overwritten again by Avast 5 sounds for those who reintegrate V4 sounds manually