David, it's simple:
1. Shut down your avast (stop and exit providers)
2. Change the value ShowHelpCheckList to =1 at section [Simple]
3. Boot
Will it help? If not, I think you must correct your avast installation or you have some troubles with the Internet Explorer
Thanks Technical, the '
ShowHelpCheckList' was not in the [Simple] section of avast4.ini,
it is now.
Just going to re-boot after this post, I will let you know what happens later.
Last night I, did and Add Remove/Change removed providers not in use, followed by a Repair, no difference. So, I uninstalled avast, rebooted, cleared the registry (RegCleaner), rebooted and re-installed, no change to current situaton.
I have IE6 fully updated, although I tend not to us it in preference to Avant 9.02 build 021 (set as my default), I also have FireFox 0.8.