Hi there, just downloaded Avast after my demo expired and I am now getting:
Application cannot load skin. Function usiGetSkin Failed". Does anyone know how I can fix this?
I tried the following from the FAQ page
Select START → RUN…
Enter the following command:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE ACTSKIN4.OCX
Press OK (or Enter).
A message saying that the file was successfully registered should appear. But it doesn’t!!! I get the following error message
DllRegisterServer in ACTSKIN4.OCX failed. Return code was 0x80020009
Can anyone assist?
Ta

Are you using Windows XP?
For some reason, ActiveSkin (the 3rd party library avast uses for skinning) does not seem to be working on your system. As a workaround, we may disable skinning in avast - that should solve the problem.
To do that, open the file \data\avast4.ini, look up the [UserInterface] section, and add the following entry:
StartWithSkin=0
Boot. Let us know if it helps.
If this does not help, can you uninstall / boot / install / boot again?
Thanks Tech, I am using XP, I uninstalled and then reinstalled but still had to add the entry to the ini file. It now works, thanks very much. 