well, every time I turn on my computer, start thinking for a big amount of time, after 8 minutes Avast autoupdate feature begin saying that my Java version is too old and Must! be updated and Next say that my adobe reader is too old and Must! be updated, I updated last time and mi machine became S-L-O-W and as a result I wish to turn off all the updates because I can not buy a new computer every time that microsoft, avast, adobe and all the associates launch updates, I understand that from time to time an update is correct but not every day, from adobe reader 4 to adobe reader 5 the update time was 6 months but now they are updating every 2 days that is ridiculous, I have a small machine celeron processor 1.8 Ghz and 512Mb of RAM but every time I turn on the machine the transaction window say that the amount of memory used by the applications is 800 000 Kb and the hard disk become crazy please, may somebody tell me how to deactivate the avast autoupdate?