Removing On-Access from Startup

[Skipmo]

I'm trying to use avast as just a virus scanner, but I can't seem to disable the on-access protection or keep avast from becoming resident in memory at startup.

Is there a way (other than uninstalling it) to keep all pieces of avast from running at startup?

[Lisandro]

It really depends on which is your operational system...
Maybe you could disable the providers and answer yes to persist the changes.
It's good too take a look in Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast > Change option and uninstall the providers that you don't want.