So far all you have made is small talk. I gave you the information you asked me for.
No, actually you didn't. Previously you said:
To answer your concern in regards to any other "Third Party plugins" -- Outlook has been running on these computers for years. It was working great with Avast 7.
Which is faulty logic. Something changed. Yes, that something was an upgrade to avast v8... But that doesn't mean that there are not OTHER FACTORS contributing to the problem you are currently experiencing. Otherwise, every single person who upgraded to v8 would be crashing outlook, and I can attest to the fact that isn't happening. There are more pieces to this puzzle. Don't ignore them.
Basic Troubleshooting? I did what you told me, there is no second version of the Plug-in running only the most current.
This is the first time you've confirmed this. Previously you only stated that it has been working fine for years. That does not speak to how it is currently working, or anything else about the environment.
What, my friend would I troubleshoot that is basic here when I am not the developer of this program.
You are not the developer, but you are in control over the environment for which the problem is occuring. You are in control over eliminating all other variables and providing information about what makes your envinronment (where the problem is happening) unique and different from other environments like ours where the problem isn't happening; so that the developer (for which I am not) can be provided enough information to recreate the problem in a controled test environment, and then work on resolving the issue.
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With that said... I'm playing a hunch that it is an interaction between two plugins. It's easy enough to enable and disable plugins in outlook, so why not strip it back to just running the avast! v8 addin and see if the crash happens. Yes I realize that the crash didn't happen with all the other plugins running with the avast v7 addin, but if the avast v8 addin doesn't crash all by itself in your environment, hey, we've learned something! If it does crash all by itself, hey we've learned something too!
If you don't provide that kind of information, and just want to wait for someone to guess why it's crashing for you, and not for others; you are going to be waiting a long time.
You can also go to avast > Settings > Maintenance > Enable debug logging - and then look for copies of asOutExt.log on your local disk (for XP I found it at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\log )... Will probably show at least what the plugin was doing at the time of the crash.
I'd love to read your next reply.
Hope this lived up to your expectations.