Avast! freezes.....

[JoeBlack40]

bobo1,i was seriously thinking about that... ...but as i said in a previous post,my previous laptop compaq presario,had vista basic installed,and avast was flying on that machine...misfortune,i've solded it...

[DavidR]

Get rid of windows vista and use windows xp more stable than vista and avast works no problem

Whilst I don't use Vista this advice is patently wrong, this problem has nothing to do with the OS.

[JoeBlack40]

I know,i was just joking about installing xp...however,the problem remains...i'll wait  avast's version 5,who knows.....Thank you everyone for your help,your answers....this is the most friendly,the most kind of wondeful forum i ever seen....Congratulations to all of you!!!

[DavidR]

My comment was directed at bobo1, whom I quoted.

Did you fully uninstall avirs, not just disable it ?
There is also an uninstall tool to ensure everything is gone. Avira AntiVir Uninstall Package & RegistryCleaner (choose appropriate version): http://www.avira.com/en/support/support_downloads.html.

[JoeBlack40]

Yes,i've totaly uninstall avira,but the freezes are keep going on...as the registry cleaner from avira,i'm not a pc savy,but it found 96 registry entries,and to be honest...only 3 or 4 of them are from avira,the rest...i don't want to delete them and to make a big mess in the registry...do you think i should trust avira's registry cleaner and delete them all?

[DavidR]

Well the avira uninstall tool does seek out other AV registry entries, so is it possible that you had another AV at some point in time. Some people sometimes suggest the avira uninstall tool as it does find other stuff.

[JoeBlack40]

So,i think i'll pass avira's cleaner...thank you for your patience davidR...i think that my only choice is to stick for now with KAV...untill avast 5 is out of the box..!

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

[hhdropbaud]

JoeBlack40, your problem probably stems from Vitakey, It's been a problem for Avast in the past and I had to uninstall Vitakey to get access to Vista in version 5.  Try uninstalling Vitakey and this may fix your freezing problems..  I know going without a fingerprint reader sucks but ya gotta learn to type in those passwords =)