@SafeSurf, no doubt, I've followed several of the forums on my own troubleshooting, and took the advice that applied to me. Unfortunately, the repair ability wasn't functioning either. But, uninstalling/reinstalling was no trouble, luckily avast installs quite fast, took me all of 5 minutes, figured that'd be a heckuva lot faster than posting and waiting for a response (not that the community hasn't been quick from what I've seen, but troubleshooting is often a lengthy process). Had the reinstall not worked/fixed it, I would have posted (which is actually why I registered today). But, I figured I would give my 2 cents (sorry to hijack the thread at all) since like I said, these pop up in google search (how I orginally came to the forum), and it was relevant to the topic.