1. Installed ram is 648MB.
There are several partitions, but avast is residing on the C: partition, which currently has about 650MB free.
2. How long will 8.0.1497 be supported? Recommendations as to where to go? I think this computer is going to be running another year or two.
Hello Chucky500!
1. Well, 650MB free on HDD is really not much.
(pagefile.sys, recycle bin and temporary (internet) files needs space too).
Now size of definition folder is around 164MB.
During online-update, your PC gets updates from avast!-server, creates new (updated) folder and finishes with deletion of old folder on HDD.
No wonder that your PC has high HDD activity...
Try to get more free space on your HDD-partition and defragment it.
I would suggest more RAM too (data are swapped from RAM to harddisk).
Do you have a possibility to install additional RAM to your PC?
Or is 648 MB already the maximum?
I think this would be helpful.
2. A official "end-of-support" date wasn't given now. One or two years should be no time problem.
For example: VPS-updates for V4.8 are STILL available (and final V4.8 Free-version was released end of 2009).
I expect rather hardware problems.
Because you never know what happens on virus codes in the future and how many HDD space is needed for protection...
INGBEAN