Yesterday, I reinstalled Avast 4.8 after trying another anti-virus product. I did not select "Typical" when installing, I selected the item underneath it, which was to have installed the same as "Typical", except for the skins.
The VRDB has not yet generated, nor do I have the (i) icon next to the clock. The (a) icon has been present since it was reinstalled.
To avoid issues, I installed Avast while Windows was in Safe Mode and am running Windows XP SP 2.
I do not see a selection anywhere that allows for a manual creation of the VRDB, since I do not have the (i) icon on-screen.
The reason why I chose not to install the skins was because the CPU is 500 MHz (a little slow by today's standards) and with a previous installation with skins, once the Avast interface was displayed it ran unusually slow.
Is there a way somehow, to manually create the VRDB, and was it a mistake to install Avast in Safe Mode?? Should it also be re-installed, due to the lack of the (i) icon?? The system has been for a total of three hours between yesterday and today and the VRDB has still not generated.
Thank you for any help.