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    avg 7.1 free Antivirus upgrade to 7.5 free

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by SJ393, Nov 22, 2006.

  1. SJ393

    SJ393 Notebook Geek

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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Thanks for the link. :) I liked using AVG so I was a little disappointed when they said they were discontinuing the free version. I am glad they are updating it instead.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Nov 22, 2006
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Make sure that you remove the old one before installing the new one. I had troubles with the direct upgrade, but when I removed the old and put in the new, it was clean.
     
    Pitabred, Nov 22, 2006
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    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    I did the direct upgrade on 2 laptops and 1 desktop and they all went smooth. AVG loves me and I love them.
     
    Padmé, Nov 22, 2006
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    yehey for free AVs!
     
    NumLock, Nov 23, 2006
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  6. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    Thanks for the heads up. Is there some way to disable the AVG service from starting automatically with windows though? I mean I can mess with msconfig until I find it, but I was just wondering if there's an ini file or setting in the program I can change.
     
    Gator, Nov 23, 2006
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    I am not sure why you would want to have it disabled on startup since the point of having antivirus is so that it's always in the background protecting, otherwise you might as well not having one.
    It's a different story though for daily scanning, I disabled through scheduler in avg so that it does not scan daily, since I know what I am doing on the web, I know I am safe.

    However if you still want to disable avg on startup at this point, I guess you can delete it from registry or disable from msconfig like you said.
    In registry it's under local machine > software > ms > windows > currentV > run, if you don't know where that is, or how to get there, it's best you don't do it here.

    I am not sure if avg adds it back once you start avg again or was it a one time registry add when installing, because I can't seem to find it to disable from the program config itself. msconfig should always work. it's under msconfig, startup, avgcc <-- disable that which is the control center of avg.
     
    SJ393, Nov 23, 2006
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  8. Gator

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    Thanks, I just wanted to use it as a backup virus scanner and didn't like the fact that it put the number of processes running over 40 :) and uses 2MB of RAM haha.
     
    Gator, Nov 23, 2006
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