[gui-talk] Another AVG RFree Edition question ee

Tue Sep 11 20:33:41 CDT 2007

hello Steve,

Yes, I rebooted after uninstalling, rebooted after installing also. There 
shouldn't have been any reason to just keep rebooting after that, not that I 
can think of. And yes, I understand that .err identifies an error message, 
and if it wouldn't open in Notepad when I simply clicked on it, the way a 
text file would, do you think it would open if I launched notepad first, 
then imported it into the blank file? I never thought of that as being 
different. But in any case, I'm almost certain that even if I would see the 
contents, they'd be gibberish to me.

last, I couldn't send the filename or its contents to Grisoft, because I am 
using the Free Edition and it doesn't include tech support.

As for the rest, well, as I think I said , I got one of those vague error 
messages when I concluded a manual scan in the copy of the program I have 
just replaced, and now I've gotten an error message in an entirely new copy 
of the program after doing something else that ought to be legal, as well. 
In-between, the first copy of the program has been expunged from my system 
as best I as a regular end user is supposed to managed (meaning uninstall 
from Control Panel, and delete any files and folders from the hard drive, 
but not know how to go into the Registry, which I'm not qualified to do.

And then I rebooted. And then I downloaded and installed and configured an 
entirely different copy  of the program. And rebooted . And changed a 
setting I should have been able to change without incurring a penalty. And 
got another error message. I can't easily say this is a bug that's 
universally in the program, I don't think. Millions of people use it 
successfully. Could it be some incompatibility related to my own innocent 
Dell Dimensions 2000 system with Win XP home? Who knows.

Ah, well.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Another AVG RFree Edition question ee

Joel,

The file name ends with .ERR, and windows uses these last characters to 
figure out with which software to open a file.
If I were you, I would try opening the error file with NotePad and see if it 
Makes any sense.

Sometimes when you install new software, it is a good idea to reboot an 
extra time even if it is not specifically specified.
I've seen cases where an installation was not quite complete even though 
indications wer that it had completed.
Therefore, rebooting and trying again is not a bad idea unless you are sure 
you had already rebooted several times
between the completion of the install and when you got the error message.

I probably don't have to tell you that even if you had done something wrong, 
the software should have informed you as
to what you did and end gracefully.  You're dealing with some sort of bug or 
system problem.  It is possible that the
contents of your ".ERR" file might be meaningless to the reader but mean 
something to AVG.  Therefore, you might
want to save it in case you end up writing to AVG.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:48:01 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:

>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.

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