A heads up about issues with Avast installed on Win10

[Crazy Swede]

So I have noticed something that have appparently caused a lot of issues to a lot of people using Avast Antivirus on Windows 10. If you're experiencing issues where the start menu or cortana (affecting Microsoft Edge by many other things) ...won't respond, then it's probably injured. Some might even get a "critical error" window popping up and suggesting that it will attempt to repair it at the next login. Although I've never seen it work.

 

Here's how you resolve this issue.

 

1. Right-click on the start menu and pick "run".
   
2. Type in "msconfig w/admin privileges" and hit enter.
   
3. Pick "Boot" in the top.
   
4. Check "Safe boot" under boot options. Make sure it's with network.
   
5. Apply.
   
6. OK.
   
7. Reboot as the computer asks you to do so.
   
8. Log in. If the start menu and cortana works again you now have 3 options. Uninstall Avast and then pick Another antivirus, use the built-in windows defender or you could just keep using Avast. Avast might ruin the start menu later on again (it has done so twice for me).
    
   
9. Once you have made up your mind you repeat step 1-3.
   
10. Uncheck "Safe boot" under boot options.
    
11. Apply.
    
12. Ok.
    
13. Reboot.
    
14. Log in.
    

 

It should now work again.

[WriteX]

I was a fan of using avast for many years until like 2 weeks after I upgraded to Windows 10.

All of a sudden it just started eating up 100% CPU and RAM. Reboot wouldn't work, repair/reinstall wouldn't work either. No f***ing clue what the issue was but avast clearly has some performance issues on Win10 so I just recommend not using it with Win10 what so ever.

 

Just some heads up.

[Dr Pepper]

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