Avast WEBforum
Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: ureca on July 26, 2006, 01:39:24 PM
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Hi,
I just installed avast on my workstation (Win XP home). But I jusy can't seem to turn on the On-Access Scanner... neither the "Resident Protection" as a group... nor the individual shields (Network, Internet Mail, Web...) separately. In fact, when I try to start the individual shields, I get the error message "The requested resident task was not found."
Please please help.
Thanks.
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Have (or did) you have another AV installed in this system, if so what and how did you get rid of it ?
Try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select 'avast! Anti-Virus,' click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow. You need to be on-line to do this.
If that doesn't work try, uninstall, reboot, install, reboot.
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Just to add have you checked that the servises are running.
Start/Control Panel/Admin Tools/Services/
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DavidR and tednelly:
Thanks a lot, I tried your solutions, finally re-installed, it seems to be working fine now.
Thanks for the help anyways. ;)
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No problem, glad we could help, welcome to the forums.