Avast makes programs non-responsive

[think_avast]

Hi, First of all thanku Alwil for providing a free AV.
AMD Sempron, WinXP MCE, Office 2003,  Nero 6.6, No Firewall.
I was using McAfee 2007 Internet Security Suite but it was eating up resources badly (but no other problems), so thought of switching to Avast, but after installing the latest one from the Alwil site, the Explorer quit responding whn i attempted to create a new folder in the hdd as usual (non-system drive, i think e: or f:), had to restart comp, cud not close thru taskmanager, same happnd with yahoo messenger (no changes made to yahoo), was able to login but it froze the moment i clicked anywhere on it, everything was fine after i uninstalled it, i tried installing another one that i downloaded a month back from this site which resulted in the same problem, have to restart comp to get back to normal, now i dont it installed and everything is running fine. Plz advice.

[Vlk]

Seems like a conflict with other software installed on the machine.
Was McAfee completely removed?

[Lisandro]

Seems like a conflict with other software installed on the machine.
Was McAfee completely removed?

To remove McAfee you need to do via Add/Remove and then the manual removal of the registry keys left behind with their on-line instructions.
They've released VSCleanupTool to do that either, just go to http://www.us.mcafee.com and click the Tech Support tab (provide your version number in Step 1 and select install/uninstall in Step 2). You can go to their user forum at http://www.forums.mcafeehelp.com if you should have problems or questions.
Check http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=20560.msg172602#msg172602 also.

You can find many free versions of these registry cleaners here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwregtools.html

[mauserme]

Is it similar to any of the problems posted here?

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=0207fc102c202e51fb5b9bf8e82825d5&topic=23934.0

Edit:

or this?

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24129.0