i just noticed i have this update W8, not updated, no notification & ! sing on Avast taskbar icon what tells user update is available, that’s why i discovered it just new
but seems its bad idea to install it if it has so meany bugs
i have Win 8.1 Avast Free
No problems here on W8.1, but it’s up to you if you update.
After I’d performed the update I hit on computer restart as requested, then the message that 2 programs were stopping windows from restarting, logoff sound and Avast, I left this as long as I could before I hit on force start, don’t normally have this issue, however it seems to have installed successful.
so you would like to see the scheduled scans in popup instead of main UI?
Martin Z:
Hi. Thanks for your response. Answer: No. See, on the first day I run a scheduled custom scan after an update, a message box automatically pops up. The message box shows me how far along the scan is. It indicates the scan’s progress in terms of percentage and, I guess as a further visual clue, simultaneously shows scan progress using the moving bar method. I’ve found this message tool helpful. I can glance at my laptop screen while passing by my desk, see how far my scan has progressed, and thus use my scan-running time to take care of non-desk work, so I’ll be all ready for desk work after the scan is completed. Something like that, anyway. Unfortunately, the scan progress indicator, auto-popup message box (or whatever it’s called) only works on Day One, but never appears again. I’ve been able to start it on a same-day basis by changing my UI settings, deleting then rescheduling my custom scan, cleanly removing and reinstalling the latest Avast edition (my process includes clean reinstall method Bob supplied me via link), and other techniques suggested here, but the message box still refuses to appear beyond Day One (except during a previous edition, when it agreed to show itself for three days before withdrawing again). As I stated earlier, the auto-indicator is useful to me, but of course not as valuable as Avast’s excellent (and free!) security protection, and its otherwise mostly user-friendly interface, despite some other bugs in the new edition (18.1.2326), as mentioned here and possibly yet to be encountered. ? I don’t know why this particular tool continues to malfunction, but I’m hopeful that its failure doesn’t much matter – doesn’t indicate other problems elsewhere – and that it will eventually be fixed. Is it a known bug?
Well, whatever. I’ll attach the snip of it again, just in case my vocabulary and overall problem description here is misleading. Sorry. Thanks. Thanks for your work with Avast, for providing and managing this forum, and for your individualized forum input/output. !
–jjb
Windows 7 starter not shutting down since upgrading Avast.
After using safemode it now appears to shut down normally in normal mode.
almost a year later the GUI is STILL SUPER slow to load it images when click on task icon to open the program., I know this reported multiple times. is really that hard to fix that? and this is on SSD drive too boot, it much worse on HDD drive we talking 8+ seconds on HDD vs 2-3 seconds on SSD there should be such huge amount delay in show images
Less than 1 second here on a HDD. ???
Yes, we also aren’t happy with the opening “speed” and we are currently working on some optimizations that should make it faster in the upcoming 4-6 weeks.
Does this newest version add support for the latest Windows patch?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074588
“Because of an issue that affects some versions of antivirus software, this fix applies only to computers on which the antivirus ISV updated the ALLOW REGKEY.”
Yes the newest version supports regkey notation. Avast was one of the earliest to set the regkey. The registry information on the right of the snip is there to allow manual insertion or verification of, into the registry.
Win 10 pro 64bit - Outlook 2016
Had the same problem as others, and was a silent reader about the issue until seeing the Beta version 18… come out.
Have installed the Beta, and it expires now in 12 months2/2019 - my Avast Internet Security expires 7/2019 months later as purchased multi years.
How does this effect the AIS expire date and should both be running at the same time?
My spam icons came back in Outlook 2016 and accepted the addon.
Really surprised that it took this long for Avast to have a “fix” for the Outlook issue
Apply your license to the beta version and it should update its expiration date. 
will have to uninstall and reinstall prob in order to do that as there isn’t a place to update your key.
Also do you have to run both this program and the Avast Internet Security?
Tks
If you have a license file just download it and then double click it to activate.
Firewall “Allowed application” popup did not go away until you click “X” on the upper right corner. This did not happen before this beta…
upgraded today, thought things going okay, then Outlook 2016 froze and wouldn’t pull down mail.
Had to reboot - when I did the add-in is gone for Avast Spam. - Tried it again and the same thing. So back to square one, didn’t fix the issue. No virus protection for email. - Anyone have any other solution? or another program that will protect email and work with Outlook 2016 Win10 64?
Has anyone tried to use the Avast Rescue Disk created by this version?
When booting from the created disk I get:
“Unable to launch main Avast Rescue Disc shell, aswShell.exe!”
Since 18.1.2326 the disks are created without \RESCUE\SETUP\CRT\INSTALLCRT.EXE.
This could possibly be the problem.
Already reported and acknowledged. To be fixed in the next regular release.