hi, I had a discussion with a microsoft rep who said my pc symptom below, might be due to an over ambitious security software. (have: xp/mso 2000, 1.6Ghz, 1G ram, new video card pending from 16MB now to 512MB). not 100% sure if avast problem, or if 50% contribute to other such as low ram video, soon to be fixed. only happened since installed avast. have not re-installed memory manager -will try.
- cannot seem to turn off avast to test. no off / exit button?
- ms excel, on trying to save file intermittently says file save not possible due to a file sharing conflict, and i am forced to save to new file name (which cannot do because of programming losses), or lose data.
other symptoms:
- copy of file cannot be renamed for backup (popup says file in use), is a new copy 2 seconds old.
- or: excel closing for unspecified problem with excel, and needs to close. (may be due to file size/ cond. formats, but file size is 1MB smaller than where that usually happens, & is happening at alarming rate/ when click find/ search etc)
I do not know how to check computer histories/ verify where problem coming from. I do not think I made any big changes to avast av free on this new/ 4 week old new install. is there a setting in avast that might affect mso applications / EXCEL ? thanks