You're welcome, the memory scan really is a bit redundant and can cause unexpected results.
As to the need for a Custom scan, that is another issue:
- With a resident on-access antivirus like avast, the need for frequent on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part the on-demand scan is going to be scanning files that would be otherwise be dormant or inert. If they were active files then the on-access file system shield would be scanning them before being created, modified, opened or executed.
I have avast set to do a scheduled weekly Quick scan, set at a time and day that I know the computer will be on. If for some reason my system wasn't on, no big deal I will catch up on the next scheduled scan.
So now we really get to the question, why do you feel the need to do a custom scan ?
That is likely to engage even more dormant/inert files, more so if you elect to scan archives. Unless of course you are using it to limit the files that are scanned.