Just Installed the Power Together Free Copy Of Vista

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Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User

AVG and the sidebar work well.. there may have been a problem during Vista
installation which may not be attributable to Vista itself..
 
All the PT mailings should be completed by the end of today. Try the Win
One Care Live 90 day free trial if AVG is giving you problems. AVAST should
also work as should (I wouldn't touch it but some people do too buggy,
uninstalls not consistent, uses too much CPU) Norton 2007.


Many many bugs were shipped with Vista RTM--they escrowed it at what they
considered 500 bugs. But as Bill Clinton said on cross examination--it all
depends on what the meaning of bug is lol and what the meaning of is is.

CH
 
Already having problems.

The AVG Free version of Anti-Virus will not start with Vista

The sidebar opened with the gadgets on top of each other.

Sure glad we worked out the bugs with Beta testing.

Gary MCSE
 
I have AVG free on my computer and it's been running well over a month.
Must be something else with your system.
 
If you upgraded from Win2k or XP and did not remove AVG first then you might
well have such an issue.
 
Even though some people never had an issue with AVG, if your problem relates
to the resident shield not loading after a system reboot then AVG is well
aware of that issue and apparently already fixed in the yet unreleased
7.5.441 build.

A couple of work-arounds; waiting about 10 seconds after signing into Vista
then manually starting AVG works. Also, using Sleep or Hibernate mode also
works as it seems only a full system reboot causes this.

Of course in the mean time, as others have suggested, OneCare and Avast are
good alternatives.

No word yet as to when build 441 will be released but probably in the next
five to ten days and apparently from that build on AVG Free will be fully
Vista compatible.
 
I wonder if setting the AVG service in "Services" to
"Automatic (Delayed Start)" might help. Worth a try.

-Michael
 
I had this problem with AVG on two machines running Vista and found a
solution that worked for me in the AVG Free forums:

------------QUOTE-----------------------------------------------

Try this:

Take AVG out of your registry startup items. Either use msconfig to
disable the startup item or open regedit and go to
HKLM\software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\run and delete the AVG_CC
entry)

Create a new txt file, and rename it from a .txt file to .vbs. I called
mine Start_AVG.vbs. I created this script to delay the startup of the
AVG Control center for 30 seconds. Copy the following code into the new
VBS file you created:

'------------------------------------------------
dim WSHShell, strProgPath

set WSHShell=CreateObject("wscript.shell")


wscript.sleep 30000

strProgPath = """C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgcc.exe""" & "
/STARTUP"

wshshell.run strProgPath,7,false

'------------------------------------------------

Now copy this file into your "Startup" folder in your start menu.
Restart your computer and about 2 minutes after your desktop appears,
AVG will then appear in your Notification tray.

Something apparently isn't started up all the way when AVG wants to
start up. This solves the issue. Hopefully this will help until Grisoft
fixes the issue.

--------------ENDQUOTE--------------------------------------------------

The only thing that I changed in the instructions quoted above is that I
reduced the OP's original startup time of 120 seconds to 30 seconds.
Waiting two minutes for AVG to load, as per his original instructions,
was excessive. Through trial-and-error, I reduced it to 30 seconds,
which works very well on both of my machines. YMMV.
 
I received a complimentary version of Vista Business from Microsoft through
the Power Together promotion. The problem is, of course the version of XP I
am currently using, Media Center, is the one and only that I can't upgrade to
the Business version. If I purchase the anytine upgrade to Ultimate, will I
able to able to install that as an Upgrade and not a clean install? I have
so much on my current hard drive that I'd rather just perform the upgrade.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.
 
Thanks for the info Michael and Daze. Interesting workarounds. I took AVG off
my system and waiting for the new build to show up.

I might just go ahead with the OneCare 1.5 promo for beta testers; it's
19.95 for a year. That's too inexpensive to say no to : )
 
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