Hi Andrew
I have had Avast 4.7 running well on some very humble-spec machines.
What are this machine's vital stats?
Operating System? (eg: 95, 98, XP)
CPU type & speed?(eg 486 66mhz, Pentium 200)
RAM total?
And less importantly - HDD rotational speed, interface (e.g. PIO, UDMA 33/66/100), size &
amount of free spaceThe following suggestions work for me on 586 and early Pentiums.
Install from scratch
- choose 'Custom' Configuration
- uncheck everything in the "Resident Protection' section
except 'Standard Shield'.
- uncheck 'Script Blocking' in the 'Professional Edition' section if it's there - it's right at the bottom. (Applies only to Professional Edition -
kinda obvious eh!.)
If you really don't have the free 3MB required for 'Skins' then uncheck that too, but you may later wish for at least the standard skin when you discover that the drop-down menus on the 'Simple' interface don't work with Windows 95.
After completing the installation
- right-click on the "i" ball in the system tray
- click 'Disable VRDB generation'
- right-click on the "i" ball again
- click 'Merge with main avast! icon'
- right-click the "a" ball
- choose 'Program Settings' > 'Update (Basic)'
- set both 'Virus Database' and 'Program' to 'Manual'
You must of course remember to update manually at least once a day!
enjoy,
Vlad