A couple months ago I tried Avast! for the first time. While installing Avast!, one of the features it requested to install was a scan that displayed while the screensaver was on. So, I pressed yes and chose Bubbles 64, since that was the screensaver I normally used, and my computer is 64-bit. I noticed after that, that when the screensaver came on, there was no scan being displayed, and everything behind the bubbles, which were normal quality themselves, was pixelated. I assume it was the screensaver scanner that had something to do with that. A few days later (even before my free internet security trial had finished) I uninstalled Avast! in hope that that would resolve the issue of the pixelation, but that did not help.
I have noticed that various textures on my computer are pixellated since it started happening with the bubbles background. In some programs, text is pixelated. Buttons in others. Entire pictures and textures in others. Even some programs' icons in the taskbar are pixelated. No matter how I fiddle with my graphics settings, it is always the same apps, the same places, the same pixelation.
I never had these problems before I installed Avast! and at first I have though i could live with them, but now they have become an incredible annoyance as some parts of programs which are extensively pixelated are basically unusable.
Computer specs:
Device: Toshiba laptop
CPU: Inter Core i5-2410M @2.3GHz
RAM: 6GB DDR3
HDD: 500GB, split in half in two partitions (D:\ with windows 8 installed)
Graphics: Built-in
I have tried all methods on
this page and none worked, method 2 even said there were no errors detected. This glitch is also not on my windows 8 partition, on which Avast! was not installed. I hardly use Windows 8, though, since all my programs are installed on my windows 7 account.
Could someone please help me with this? I do not wish to completely re-install windows to get rid of this.
