may i ask why you dont want realtime protection?
Because I already have Zone Alarm which does realtime protection and it would not be sensible to have two AV's running at the same time both with realtime protection. Hence I want to install Avast without real time protection. I would just yat Avast for on demand scans.
When you install Avast can you customise install to remove real time scanning??
Many thanks for your help.