Hi folks.. I had just uninstalled an ill-mannered competitor from a client's home PC, and he needed SOME sort of AV protection, so thought I'd try Avast for the first time.
So I fetched and downloaded Avast's free Home edition, installed it, everything seemed to go fine, and it's MUCH lighter on the system. However I ran into these problems:
The registration key refused to "take". It threw me to a "register or demo mode?" dialog, and after a couple tries I gave up and just picked Demo mode. How do I fix this so this user will have permanent protection?
During installation, it asked if I wanted to do boot-time scan. I thought it meant of boot sector, memory, and core OS files, but it meant ALL files, which takes over an hour! How do I turn this off?
How do I turn off the skinned interface? I find it awkward and confusing, and very much wish for a standard Windows program interface.
Thanks!
~REZ~