Hello,
I've been experiencing some unusually long boot times since upgrading to 9.0.2007 version of Avast Free. I am now on 9.0.2008 and I am getting the same issue. It's particularly the shutdown part that is the problem. Usually this part takes about 30 seconds ... Now it takes up to 4 minutes!
Let me explain how this happens: after the desktop clears of icons, it remains frozen like that between 2 and 3 minutes, before going off to 'Logging off' screen, then 'Shutting down'. Sometimes even 'Logging off' freezes another minute or two.
The booting process works normally, as far as I can tell.
Anyone knows how to fix this particular problem?
My system is a Windows Vista SP 2. Not sure if you need any more details.