Have had a problem for a while now (several months), possibly made worse by an MS update but have tracked it down to a clear interaction with Avast.
Win 7 Pro with Avast Free
- When I turn the machine on there is a 50+% chance that the machine will not start properly. Most obviously, the Wifi will not connect and retains a blue circle "waiting" over the wifi icon in the system tray. I have also tried to examine task start-up statuses using services.msc, but that refuses to start also. Other tasks seem to run (such as I can start Windows Explorer, Process Explorer) but the machine is in general very slow.
- A restart will 100% fix the problem and the machine will start ok. However, the shutdown when doign this takes a very long time (10+ minutes) with near-constant disk activity during that time
- If, each time I turn the machine off, I turn Avast off before shutting down the machine then the problem does not occur
- Have updated Avast to 19.6.2383 (build 19.6.4546.494) and the problem is still there
Obviously, a magic solution would be best, but otherwise are there any logs I could access and submit? Thx