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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: MrRAlan on April 16, 2013, 11:40:33 PM

Title: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: MrRAlan on April 16, 2013, 11:40:33 PM

When avast tries to update after I boot my pc, it brings it to a crawl.  How do I tell avast not to do the first update until 10 minutes after I start my pc?

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: Lisandro on April 17, 2013, 01:13:52 PM

To delay the update of avast into a permanent internet connection (DSL), just change (or add) AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds value into the [InetWD] section of avast5.ini file.
You could set the number of seconds to wait before attempting to update. The default is 30 but it may not be enough in some DSL systems. In this case, you can try increasing this e.g. to 60 (1 minute). That should be enough.

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: MrRAlan on April 17, 2013, 11:49:30 PM

Thanks Tech.

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: de redder on April 18, 2013, 09:13:17 AM

Mmm...i haven`t that avast5.ini file and i want to change it too. And i want that avast updates once a day.

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: MrRAlan on April 18, 2013, 01:07:25 PM

Check in C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5.

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: bob3160 on April 18, 2013, 03:50:30 PM

It may also be in:
C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\avast5.ini
It all depends on your OS and how you installed and updated avast!

Title: Re: How do I prevent avast from trying to update when I boot the pc?
Post by: de redder on April 20, 2013, 08:09:04 AM

Okay,
I have found the avast5 file under programdata but what is written here isn`t in that file.
So i have added it.

When i have rebooted i will revert back if it works for me.

Thanks