Some information about your system specs might not go amiss, CPU, RAM and OS ?
Presumably you have a broadband connection that is available very early in the boot, when a connection is available avast will check for updates.
- In avast5 you need to edit (using
notepad)
avast5.ini the
[InetWD] section of the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast5\avast5.ini
- Broadband connections, add this line:
AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds=120 and
AssumeAlwaysConnected=1 if not present (or edit AssumeAlwaysConnected=0 to AssumeAlwaysConnected=1)
[InetWD]
AssumeAlwaysConnected=1
AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds=120
When complete save the changes, avast's self-defence module will ask for confirmation, etc. answer Yes.
The figure is seconds and the above equates to two minutes, you could try that and adjust upwards if required, 180, 240, etc.
@ Gargamel360
That will make no difference as it isn't until after avast has loaded that the update check happens. So any delaying of the avast services would be in the millisecond range after windows services and shouldn't really improve the early update check.