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Avast free 8 freezing 3rd party installs
« on: August 19, 2013, 06:57:59 PM »
Hello,

I've just installed my Windows 7 pro 64bits machine for the third time in a row, i ran in a lot of weird installation troubles. And i finally found that avast free 8 blocks some installs without any warning. Installs of VMWare workstation 8, .net 4 en 4.5, office 2010  and a whole load of windows updates. The symptoms are that the install or update stalls, and can't be canceled, it just sits in a frozen state.  I tried disabling avast for an hour (and permanently), but that didn't help. Finally i deinstalled avast and all installs and updates worked fine. There were no messages in event viewer that implied any errors.... i installed avast again after this, now just the shields, no other modules except the software update checker. Today i had some windows updates updates that again stalled when shutting down my system.... i removed avast and they installed without any problems. I found (Google) that VMware workstation had a problem with avast... but nothing found about the other problems.... Does anyone have an idea whats wrong, i hate to go look for another AV, cause i like avast (still, after these problems :)

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Re: Avast free 8 freezing 3rd party installs
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2013, 09:24:48 AM »
See, if that helps...

Uncheck: Settings -> Troubleshooting -> Enable hardware-assisted virtualization
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