Hi All,
I installed Avast 4.8 Home and the resident part installed and fired up faultlessly.
What a brilliant little AV application.
After clicking on the desktop Avast Antivirus Icon and letting the memory scan complete, the help window and Control panel popped up. At the bottom of the help window there is a tick box to prevent this window appearing in future with an image below it.
Here is where the problem showed itself.
As soon as I clicked the tick box, a run time error popped up. This meant that I could not stop the help window popping up each time the program was loaded.
I searched this forum and google for a fix for this with no results.
But...
After carrying out a fix to cure a problem with another application, the Avast problem was also cured. It turned out to be an Internet explorer ActiveX Compatibility issue
The FixIf you are confident to edit the registry, enter this value using regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{ADB880A6-D8FF-11CF-9377-00AA003B7A11}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000000Otherwise, I have uploaded a reg file to do the same job. It can be downloaded from here
www.marmic.co.uk/IE_compat_fix.zipUnzip it and double click the reg file to add the value to the registry
I hope this helps someone