I've been using Avast Home edition on a Windows Me system for approximately six months. During the previous two weeks, I noticed that automatic system restore checkpoints were not being created. In exploring this over the past few days, the indicators point to Avast as the culprit preventing the restore points. If I stop ALL running services related to Avast, System Restore creates an automatic checkpoint within minutes. I've repeated this numerous times, and it's definitely related to Avast.
I've tried to systematically identify what may be effecting System Restore. For example, I've tried disabling VRDB, then disabling the real-time scanners, but it's only when I kill all processes related to Avast that the automatic checkpoint gets created.
This is a recent development with Avast. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Avast, but this had no effect in correcting the problem. Has this issue come up before?