Bob read your PM, I know exactly what's causing your problem... and it has nothing to do with avast! this time. Windowblinds screwed up few system files on your machine. I have had similar problem almost 2 years ago, and the only thing that helped was format and complete reinstall of Windows and all programs. That's why I don't want to play with those buggy customizing programs any more. I wish I used to make system backups back then, it would save me a lot of time and spare me of a unbelievable hassle, but we learn from the past...
DavidR, yes you're right... it looks like we will wait quite some time for these answers. I know Alwil guys are unbelievable busy, but still, we are such a long time in here and I really trully believe our voices should be heard... we try to help many people in here, but we also need help ourselves sometimes... best of all, we are not trying to sound speaking bad about avast! It's just we want all those things to be solved, so avast! can stay on the top of our list of most useful programs ever...
We're just trying to help ourselves and Alwil to correct those issues ASAP. Are we asking much ?