Good Morning.
i have the same problem.
I bought a new laptop, everything was running smoothly. On the second day all of a sudden the taskbar was not responding anymore. The start menu does not open up, the search field neither and I cannot open pictures, receiving the error code 2147249195.
2 days in, I went nuts, scoured the internet for solutions, powershell, repair tool,.. tried everything I found - nothing worked.
Then i found a link that obviously many avast users have this issue, so i unistalled it and everything was working fine.
Full of hope I followed your instructions to clean install the premium version again, what i did, entered the code, restarted, and all the problems are back.
This time I tried to repair avast and was told it is when finished, but it isn't.
So is this issue really more than 4 year old and still not fixed?
Whats completely confusing: on my old laptop I did not have these issues.
So what am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?
I want to keep Avast as I am a long term customer with other licences as well and was really happy with it untill yesterday.
many thanks in advance!
Sven