usiGetSkin Failed". The FAQ didn't work, can someone help?

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

:slight_smile:

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. :slight_smile: