Where did you find this MaxConnections setting in the registry ? As I can't see it in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AVAST Software\Avast\properties\EmailShield\EmailScanner location
If you added/created it what values did you set and where ?
I believe you would also need to do a restart for these to take effect.
There is none on my personal computer, so it's like the .ini file, you have to add it first, but the computer I used this hack on already had the values copied from the file by Avast when the update happened I guess.
It was already set to '100' just how I added in the .ini file. Now I set it to 150 to see if maybe it just didn't apply or something, and the computer was restarted multiple times since then.
I want to also thank you for the initial help, even if you were not answering to me back then, but for the past year the .ini modification worked perfectly on that computer.
edit: Oh, sorry I didn't say where the value is, but it is exactly where you wrote it should be.
It's in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AVAST Software\Avast\properties\EmailShield\EmailScanner
also in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Avast Software\Avast\properties\EmailShield\EmailScanner, but AFAIK that's just a copy.
edit2: Uploaded a picture, this is from my PC for testing purposes only, so I added it here manually, but the other computer had the string and value there already when I looked.