Question about AVG and WinXp

[John S. Riggins]

I have previously used AVG on Windows 95 and Windows 98 computers.

I have a new Windows XP laptop (my first experience with XP). I
installed AVG and it *appears* to be working correctly.

However, on the older Win 95 and Win 98 computers, upon booting up,
before reaching the screen where the desktop icons start appearing, I
would always see a brief screen where AVG said that it was initiating
boot scanning. After this brief screen (a short scan) appeared and then
disappeared, the computers would continue to finish the booting process.

With my new XP computer, I am not seeing the AVG "Initiating AVG boot
scanner" screen. The boot sequence goes right from the Windows welcome
screen to "building" the desktop icons.

I have confirmed I have AVG set to scan for boot viruses.

Is this something different about XP? Is the boot scan being performed
but just not showing up on the screen at bootup? Or, am I missing a step.

I just want to confirm that AVG is operating properly.

Thanks in advance.

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[Sanjaya]

Others can make this more clear than I.
Win9x was basically a DOS shell.
The computer booted to DOS and then
Windows... thus AVG had a line in the
autoexec.bat to run the boot scan, and you
saw it working, then Win9x would load.
XP is it's own OS, and DOS is gone.
I'm not versed in computers, but I hope
that made some sense. Don't worry about it,
AVG is working in XP.