[gui-talk] Another AVG RFree Edition question ee

[Joel Deutsch]

HI Doris or anyone who may understand what happened, below.

With Doris' reassurance, I went ahead and downloaded both updates I was 
offered for my newly installed copy of AVG Free Edition v. 7.5. After doing 
so, I checked the status messages that display on the Control Center 
interface, and everything was now in order.

Then I had one more thing I wanted to do, which  was to disable the daily 
virus scan so that I could run it when I chose, less often than daily and at 
whatever time of day might best suit me at the time. So I launched the Test 
Center and went to the Scheduler tab.

There, as experienced users will know, you find the scan and the update 
service listed separately, one after the other. Whichever of the two you 
wish to reschedule, you put it in focus, selected, then tab to the control 
that opens a dialogue for modifying its schedule.

I didn't touch the schedule for the update, because that takes only a few 
seconds and is no problem for me. And it's vital, of course, if you want to 
try to keep up with the virus writers.

As for So I clicked on the modification control for the scan itself. Here, 
you can change the time of the daily scan or, if you choose, uncheck the 
line that enables the scan, to disable it altogether, leaving it to be done 
manually. I tabbed to OK to make the change permanent, and the dialogue 
disappeared. Fine.

Then, I forget if it was right away or when I pressed Alt F 4 to exit the 
Test Center, I got the inscrutable AVG Free Edition error message I'd seen 
before, on the copy of the program I'd just cleanly uninstalled and then 
replaced with this new one. Something bad happened, it says. And refers you 
to a file in Documents and Settings/Admin/AVG7/ to see the particulars and 
learn what the problem is. Or at least that's what I assumed the message was 
suggesting.

But no, I go into that folder, find the file, press Enter on it, and get the 
windows notification that Windows can't open the file and needs to know with 
what program it was created, and so forth.

Well, I don't know what to answer to that, if I should be having to do so in 
the first place. How am I to find out why AVG gave me an error message after 
I did something the interface allowed me to do? It's not as if I'd tried to 
tweak something that can't be tweaked unless you're using the Pro version. 
This was something that was, so far as I could tell, legitimate.

By the way, this "something bad happened" is the message I was getting when 
I ran the scan manually in the copy of AVG I just replaced. The scan would 
run, but then this error message would superimpose istle f on the results 
Window. And I hadn't done anything more criminal than run the scan manually. 
And that was without having disabled the automatic scan, at that time.

anyway, I virtualized the filename and I'll paste it in here, below. If 
anyone understands what's going on in this scenario and/or recognizes this 
error filename, please advise. I really just want to use AVG Free Edition 
without the automatic scan, and as far as I can tell from the interface, I 
should be able to. I'm baffled.

Thanks to anyone who understands this and can offer advice.
Here's the error file:

Name Size Type Date Modified

avgwb.err 6 KB ERR File 9/11/2007 3:16


thanks very much.