Hi all,
Just a heads up, despite all the solutions provided in this thread, I am still experiencing this issue.
I have two laptops running on both windows 7 x32 and x64 bit edition. Both of these laptops are running avast 8.0.1489 and; have been defragged regularly, have start up programs reduced to almost none and installed avast with minimum feature (Just the AV only, without the fanciful Software Updater and stuff). Yet, the problem still occurs.
Could anyone inform the developer about this issue, I am pretty sure most windows 7 users will encounter this. Hopefully, they could resolve this by the next update.
Thank You