Avast! Silent/Gaming Mode won't stay on when I put my computer to sleep

[diezL]

I've had Avast Free Home edition for quite a time now, though there is something that really annoys me, everytime I put my computer to Sleep when I reopen it the Silent/Gaming mode wears off! So everything I open my computer I get that message saying the virus database is up to date. On another computer that is always opened, even when i restart it or just turn it off, when I put it back on the message is not appearing and Silent/Gamin mode stays on. Only when I put it to Sleep it comes back Off.(Windows 7 64-bit build 7600)

Any way to fix this? Thanks.

Olivier

[DavidR]

You mention "I've had Avast Free Home edition for quite a time now," unfortunately that is a bit of a mix of two products, avast 4.8 Home and avast 5.0 free antivirus.

What avast version are you using 4.8 or 5.0 ?

Are you using a limited user account on the system with problems  ?

[diezL]

Heres a picture to show you.

[DavidR]

Well I'm not a gamer so I haven't used this option, but I wouldn't recommend leaving it permanently in gaming/silent mode. If the games that you use are full screen games then avast recognises that and and will enter gaming/silent mode whilst you have that game on full screen.

You didn't answer the other question about limited user accounts and the other system ?

[Hermite15]

"gaming mode" still on when system resuming from sleep mode here ...you don't need to be a gamer to check if it works whether it would still be on if triggered by a full screen app as opposed to doing it manually like I just did now, I have no idea, I don't have any game installed right now. Checking then must be hard as to check you got to get out of the full screen app

[diezL]

No, I just put it because I don't want any alert at any time... It's not even for the games. "Silent"/Gaming mode... I just want it silent.

[diezL]

So is this when the administrators stop helping people :\...

[DavidR]

No administrators have responded in your topic only avast users like yourself.

I don't know why this is happening to you but not the others who have responded.

Whilst I'm not confident this is likely to work it won't hurt to try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select 'avast! Anti-Virus,' click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow.

[diezL]

Well it did not work, but since nobody else have this problem maybe nothing will fix it.

Thanks anyway everyone who tried to help me.

[DavidR]

You could try a clean reinstall as that is the next step after a repair didn't work.

- Download the latest version of avast, 5.0.545 http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_free.exe and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again (if you didn't save your last download). Use that when you reinstall.

- Download the avast! Uninstall Utility, aswClear5.exe find it here and save it to your HDD (it has uninstall tools for both 4.8 and 5.0).

• 1. Now uninstall (using add remove programs, if you can't do that start from the next step), reboot.
• 2. run the avast! Uninstall Utility from safe mode, first for 4.8 if previously installed and then for 5.0, once complete reboot into normal mode.
• 3. install the latest version, reboot.

[diezL]

Unfortunately it did not do the trick :\ it still goes off when I put the computer to sleep.