Excel Sharing Violation Error

[BobbyTupper]

I am experiencing a problem with saving an Excel document.  When the user tries to save he gets the message "The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please close the document and try to open it again"

All permissions checked and are ok, when disabling Avast on the users PC, this error goes away!!!

The PC in question is running Windows XP Pro SP2

Any ideas???

[YoKenny]

Welcome BobbyTupper

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been available for over a year and provides many Critical Updates plus performance improvements.

You need to start Internet Explorer then go to Tools then Windows Update and download all of the available updates.

Go to Control Panel then Automatic Updates then select Automatic (recommended) or at least Notify me but don't automatically download or install them.

Go to Secunia Online Software Inspector then run it to see what other applications are vulnerable:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online

[BobbyTupper]

Thanks for that YoKenny, I was wondering if installing SP3 would have any bearing....i'll give it a try