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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Heewoon on January 11, 2022, 07:12:51 AM

Title: Cannot load some applications
Post by: Heewoon on January 11, 2022, 07:12:51 AM
Hi,

This problem never happened before when I used Avast One, but this started after I switched from One to Free. Some specific programs were being kind of deleted. When I try to open them from the start menu, nothing happens. Luckily, I had the idea to try running this as an administrator, but this only led to an error message saying that Windows could not find <ex>, with <ex> being replaced with the path of the executable application.
The weird part is that I can open the executable files with notepad. I tried disabling Avast, but that did no help.

Is this a known issue?
If so, please fix!

A reply will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Cannot load some applications
Post by: r@vast on January 12, 2022, 05:40:41 PM
Hi,

Not a known issue.
Perhaps you can try a system restore.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/recovery-options-in-windows-31ce2444-7de3-818c-d626-e3b5a3024da5#bkmk_restore_from_system_restore_point