Greetings, all!
I am having a major problem with 4.7.1029 Home Edition. Running on Vista Home Premium 32 bit, when I try to run the main on-demand scanner ashAvast.exe, the splash screen shows and the scan of memory-resident programs completes normally, but when that finishes and the main scanning interface is supposed to appear, it fails to open and the entire avast loading process shuts down. Vista does not freeze or anything like that; I just can't get to the main avast! scanner interface, and therefore can't do a scan. For this reason, I have returned to 4.7.1001, which works flawlessly.
For what it's worth, my specs include Intel Core 2 Duo 6400, 2 GB RAM, Asus 8600GT PCIx graphics (with Nvidia Forceware 162.22 WHQL), onboard Realtek ALC883 audio with Realtek driver 1.72 (WHQL), Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet with driver 1.0.5600.11159 (WHQL), most recent Intel Chipset drivers (installed using the drivers' setup program), and all Vista critical patches (but none which are only "recommended") offered by Windows Update as of this moment.
Any ideas on what may be wrong here would be much appreciated.
EDITED: This problem occurs whether I install .1029 on top of .1001 via avast update or I completely uninstall .1001 and install .1029 from scratch.
Regards,
Crashman