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Offline Lisandro

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2005, 03:03:24 AM »
It's not a problem with avast! version or update...
Your computer has some different thing that is avoiding avast to launch...
Have you said that the processes were running in background?
If so, if you kill them and try to start again?
Did you ever run the avast! interface or never?
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2005, 03:10:36 AM »
i tried running it right after the first time i installed it and it ran fine.



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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2005, 03:13:10 AM »
i tried running it right after the first time i installed it and it ran fine.
Got an idea, go to the skins directory, find other skin, download and double click over it to install...
What do you get?
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2005, 03:22:51 AM »
it runs ashsimpl.exe and i still don't get anything. It's not a skin problem because i tried disabling skins already..

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2005, 03:25:44 AM »
Sorry... the end for me  :'(
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2005, 03:27:09 AM »
thanks for trying:)

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2005, 11:04:16 AM »
After you try to start one of the scanners (ashSimpl2.exe, for example), does it appear in the list of running processes (in Process Explorer)?
Is there anything in avast! log? (rightclick on avast! tray icon, select avast! Log Viewer and check everything above the Error cathegory, including).

Can you scan a folder using the Explorer Extension? (rightclick, "Scan ...").


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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2005, 03:20:45 AM »
yes they stay in the memory (list of running processes / process explorer)

actually i can't open the log viewer either....

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2005, 03:23:31 AM »
actually i can't open the log viewer either....
Can't you run it directly from avast! folder?
ashLogV.exe
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2005, 03:24:47 AM »
no

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2005, 03:32:14 AM »
no
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If you boot in Safe Mode, could you run avast! executables?
ashsimpl.exe etc. etc.
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2005, 03:34:00 AM »
At the risk of frustrating you... nope

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2005, 03:43:32 AM »
At the risk of frustrating you... nope
In fact, I'm not frustrated... I'm surprised... I never saw this behavior before.
It's intrigating me. The worst thing is that the processes are listed there and nothing is running...
Something is avoiding it to load. I've got this with Firefox some months ago and it was due to the Extensions.
Do you use ProcessGuard?
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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2005, 04:36:07 PM »
Well, that's really strange. I believe I've heard of a similar conflict with WindowBlinds, or IconPackager, but your list of processes doesn't suggest anything like that.

The only thing I can tell you to try is to kill the (non-Microsoft) processes one by one and check if it makes any change for avast! each time. Don't forget to kill the frozen avast! process before every try...

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Re: Main Program won't open
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2005, 12:17:20 AM »
ProcessGuard? what's that?


and actually, i AM using iconpackager... it wasn't in active processes because it doesn't have to be in the memory to work, i guess it just changes something and then is done?

can you tell me more about the conflict with iconpackager, igor?