Win 2K
Avast 4.7 Home Edition
ZoneAlarm Free Version
I have been using Avast for years with no problems. Recently I attempted to use my slide show program, ProShow Gold, which I have not used for many months....last December I think it was. Anyway, I noticed my system bogging down terribly so I went to Task Manager and determined that ashServ.exe was using a very large percentage on the cpu. Exiting ProShow solves the problem...as does shutting down Avast. The two no longer want to "play nice" together! Looking at the details in Avast, it is scanning.......repeatedly......all of the jpg files that Proshow has loaded or active. It never stops scanning them as long as ProShow is open. The more images I include in the slideshow, the more my system slows down.
I have gone to the Customize >Advanced tab and entered the folder containing the files being scanned hoping that would eliminate the problem, but it had no effect.(I am probably doing something wrong.) If I select Stop Provider>Standard Shield, the scanning stops. I wouldn't have known to do any of this without the help found on this forum dealing with similar issues regarding ashServ. Is there something else I can try that would allow these two programs to work together again? I really don't like the idea of turning off part of Avast while working with ProShow.
Thanks
zane