i use avast 4 home now for some months but now i have a problem:
the day before yesterday avast updated automaticly and then popup´ed: “you have to restart windows” or something. ok, that´s normal with avast when it updates its program, but since then, when i restart or boot up, avast says after every booting that i have to restart my windows. this is very annoying!
in my autostart avast is called this way (as installed automaticly):
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
avast versions:
build 4.6.744
xtreme toolkit version 1.9.4.0
active skin version 4.2.7.3
vps version 0601-2 / 05.01.2006
windows version:
win xp professional (german)
i tried to resolve the problem this way:
deinstall avast, boot, let regcleaner 4.3 clean my registry, boot again and reinstall avast home… → same problem.
Better that to use regcleaner, why don’t you try avast uninstall tool to remove all files and registry keys?
First, uninstall it through Control Panel, boot, use avast uninstall tool, boot, install again.
but as you can read obove, i DID deinstall avast using the normal deinstallation routine.
i used regcleaner (after the 3rd reboot or so) only to clean my registry after the normal avast-deinstallation because i thought that some unwanted code in the win registry let avast want to reboot every windows start.