Thanks for your time.
Awhile ago I installed Avast on my home PC, let it run the boot time scan, and it returned only a black screen. After a looooooong wait the screen went away and windows XP SP2 booted normally.
However, recently I installed Avast on a second computer (Windows XP Pro) and its boot scan actually shows what it's scanning, so now I'm concerned over the first computer's lack of visibility.
I went here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=9262ddb8f0071fbf981de2053b83164c&topic=22564.0And checked for this problem (hence the title of this thread) and indeed I did have the system set up to show a gui on boot. So now I'm confused.
My problem is virtually identical to the problem from the thread mentioned above, the computer reboots, shows the "starting windows" screen, and then goes black with a lot of HD and CPU activity for a good hour or so, then loads windows normally.
So my question is,
why can't I see the "avast! antivirus / Press Esc to bypass scanning" screen while my XP home system is scanning?I'm pretty stumped, and would appreciate any assistance. Thanks for reading this.