computer: avast av
Aug. 23rd, 2012 01:41 pmThis morning Avast! was all "hey, program update!" so I updated it. It needed to restart, so I finished some stuff I was doing and let it do that...
Booted to black desktop, no start bar. I gave it a few minutes in case it was working in the background, but then it didn't do anything. Rebooted in Safe Mode, which ran fine. Then rebooted in regular mode. Desktop froze when I clicked on it - not even right-clicked, just left-click. Restarted again... log out/shut down took FOREVER (~5min). Restarted again and it was at normal speed. Everything seems to be working normally now I guess? I checked the Event log and it doesn't show any errors except longer boot time (marked Critical). I'm just hoping things are okay now. I'm sort of afraid to shut down/restart because I don't want to deal with it right now. I have to shut down for DragonCon next week, so I'll just deal with it when I get back if there is a problem, I guess.
I'm seeing online that some people have had similar problems. Half the people seem to be fine after letting Avast do whatever it was doing and the other half have to uninstall/reinstall. And then half of those see the problem recurring after shutdown/restart, but it goes away after reboot. I guess if it continues, I'm going to have to completely dump Avast! and try out Avira or something. Or at least do a clean install of Avast.
GDI.
Edit: Just did a complete shut down & reboot as suggest by a friend and everything seems to be back to normal. Speedy boot up after log in. I guess whatever it was corrected itself. He suggested possibly video driver got reloaded. I still think it's Avast being a jerk.
Booted to black desktop, no start bar. I gave it a few minutes in case it was working in the background, but then it didn't do anything. Rebooted in Safe Mode, which ran fine. Then rebooted in regular mode. Desktop froze when I clicked on it - not even right-clicked, just left-click. Restarted again... log out/shut down took FOREVER (~5min). Restarted again and it was at normal speed. Everything seems to be working normally now I guess? I checked the Event log and it doesn't show any errors except longer boot time (marked Critical). I'm just hoping things are okay now. I'm sort of afraid to shut down/restart because I don't want to deal with it right now. I have to shut down for DragonCon next week, so I'll just deal with it when I get back if there is a problem, I guess.
I'm seeing online that some people have had similar problems. Half the people seem to be fine after letting Avast do whatever it was doing and the other half have to uninstall/reinstall. And then half of those see the problem recurring after shutdown/restart, but it goes away after reboot. I guess if it continues, I'm going to have to completely dump Avast! and try out Avira or something. Or at least do a clean install of Avast.
GDI.
Edit: Just did a complete shut down & reboot as suggest by a friend and everything seems to be back to normal. Speedy boot up after log in. I guess whatever it was corrected itself. He suggested possibly video driver got reloaded. I still think it's Avast being a jerk.