I am running Win ME and my PC will not take automatic restore points when Avast is running. I have manually disabled all Avast functions and it still fails to take a system restore point automatically (approx every 10 hrs when idle for 2 minutes). When I disable Avast via “run msconfig” , the system restore takes the scheduled point as per normal. My other PC running win XP works OK, any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Just a guess, can you finish your VRDB running? (I mean, the blue ‘i’ icon on the system tray and/or under the ‘a’ icon menu > VRDB > Generate now…)?
Other possibility, disable the System restore, boot, enable the service again… Will this work?
Thanks for your timely reply. I had previously tried a mulitude of things including stopping and restarting system restore with no change to the problem. I can manually take a system restore point without issue. I had the VRDB disabled, and have now changed it to start when the screensaver comes on, I’m curious to see if that changes anything. If not, I will uninstall and reinstall Avast, perhaps there is something corrupted from the first install. I will keep you posted on my progress. Thanks. 
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