Can't Restore to a Restore Point: Avast to blame?

[DavidR]

There's a difference between stopping something that might spread a problem if the PC had malware and blocking or making the System Restore option more difficult to enable at all times.
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Yes there is, but how the hell are you to determine that !!!

[Cluster-Lizard2014]

Its what AVAST is there for isn't it?

If there's malware detected then of course you want it to prevent spreading so blocking System Restore use and such interference may be justified and helpful. I assume that's what you're thinking AVAST is doing and, indeed, we do not know if it is being done for good reasons or not.

But making it more difficult to use in general, as has happened in the past, that should not be happening. But we're not even sure FredN's (the OP) case that it is AVAST's interference that is causing the problem here.

We've gone a bit off piste in this discussion I think.
     

[DavidR]

Its what AVAST is there for isn't it?

If there's malware detected then of course you want it to prevent spreading so blocking System Restore use and such interference may be justified and helpful. I assume that's what you're thinking AVAST is doing and, indeed, we do and know if it is being done for good reasons or not.

And here you want to go disabling it

But making it more difficult to use in general, as has happened in the past, that should not be happening. But we're not even sure FredN's (the OP) case that it is AVAST's interference that is causing the problem here.

And we won't know unless he comes back with more details.

We've gone a bit off piste in this discussion I think.

Hardly we are still talking about System Restore and potential problems with its use.