I am not sure if this topic should be in this forum or the Avast Passwords forum but since this is a feature of Avast Free Antivirus for Windows I am posting it here. Please tell me if the post should be made in the other forum or move it there if you are a moderator with the powers to do so.
Since the latest update to 21.4.2464 Avast Passwords in the Privacy module is not working like it used to. Maybe I don't know how to use it and need instructions? It used to require me to enter my master password every time I reboot the PC, I just had to click on the UNLOCK button, type in the master password and hit the Enter key and it would unlock all the passwords. After the first update it would not unlock at all until I opened the settings and unchecked all the boxes, and then it opened. So if I leave all the boxes unchecked it is open all the time and I never have to enter my master password even when the PC is started or restarted.
So I looked at the settings again and all the boxes are unchecked, which one should be checked if I want to have to enter the master password every time the computer is rebooted?
It was unlocked when I rebooted the PC this morning so as an experiment I clicked the LOCK button and password display turned to the screen with the UNLOCK button, so I clicked the button and then typed in my master password and hit the enter key and it does not unlock, it just switches back from the text field to the Unlock button. I went to settings and all boxes were still unchecked, so I checked a box and unchecked it, and THEN it opened all the passwords.
Is this how it is supposed to work or is there a bug? It seems to me that no matter which boxes are checked in settings, it SHOULD unlock the passwords after I enter the master password, but it does not.
Please help me understand if there is something I am doing wrong. As for settings I do not want to have passwords locked automatically after a given period of time or after each time I close the web browser. I only want it to lock when I shut down or restart the computer. And why doesn't it unlock the passwords when I enter the master password, without having to go to settings and check and uncheck boxes?