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Avast! & explorer.exe issue

Started by Luke Johnson , Jan 12 2010 04:22 PM

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Luke Johnson

Posted 12 January 2010 - 04:22 PM

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Most times I try to insert an SD card to upload photos to my computer or try to finish scanning photos on my computer, the explorer bar freezes up on my computer. If I end the explorer.exe process and restart everything is fine, and sometimes I can even reinsert the SD card/rescan without a problem. I'm pretty sure there is some type of interference with Avast! because if I disable Avast! and then insert my SD card/scan a photo, nothing goes wrong (from what I can tell). While this isn't a life or death issue (since I have a current work-around), it is extremely annoying. Any ideas on how to tweak Avast! so this won't happen or other fixes to this issue? Is this a known issue with Avast!? Any help would be great. My computer is an EeePC Netbook (1000HA) running XP home edition.

Edited by Luke Johnson, 12 January 2010 - 04:23 PM.