Some avg 7 issues/bugs?/limits

[Anthony Giorgianni]

A couple of issues with the new AVG 7.

1) Seems like the update url is unchangeable in the new free edition. (To
wit: "Modification of the URL path is available only in AVG Professional.")
Any work-arounds (no registry setting that I can find.or program .ini
file.)? Couldn't update this morning, though the url was fine yesterday.
Maybe it's better to do it through "scheduler?"

2) I tried to cancel the non-update, and the update screen froze repeatedly,
requiring ctrl-shift-del to stop. Took numerous tries to end the update
task, and I get "AVGCC not responding."

3) Avg 7 interferes with Standby on my older Gateway 9300 WinSE laptop
(Win98se, Pen III 600, Bus Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Gateway 16.05
04/17/2000.) After pressing the standby sequence, standby sometimes stalls
for a minute or more or even freezes at the going-into-standby notice. If I
close the AVG control center in the task bar, the computer proceeds into
standby INSTANTLY every time. Not sure if it's the new app itself it or some
setting within it. I tried disabling scheduled tasks, but same thing. Anyone
else seeing this? Any creative suggestions other than shutting down avgcc
every time or moving to Avast?

Anyone experiencing other issues with this new one?


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[Mike]

A couple of issues with the new AVG 7.

1) Seems like the update url is unchangeable in the new free edition. (To
wit: "Modification of the URL path is available only in AVG Professional.")
Any work-arounds (no registry setting that I can find.or program .ini
file.)? Couldn't update this morning, though the url was fine yesterday.
Maybe it's better to do it through "scheduler?"

2) I tried to cancel the non-update, and the update screen froze repeatedly,
requiring ctrl-shift-del to stop. Took numerous tries to end the update
task, and I get "AVGCC not responding."

3) Avg 7 interferes with Standby on my older Gateway 9300 WinSE laptop
(Win98se, Pen III 600, Bus Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Gateway 16.05
04/17/2000.) After pressing the standby sequence, standby sometimes stalls
for a minute or more or even freezes at the going-into-standby notice. If I
close the AVG control center in the task bar, the computer proceeds into
standby INSTANTLY every time. Not sure if it's the new app itself it or some
setting within it. I tried disabling scheduled tasks, but same thing. Anyone
else seeing this? Any creative suggestions other than shutting down avgcc
every time or moving to Avast?

Anyone experiencing other issues with this new one?

After I installed it I could no longer read my floppy disks or CD-ROMs -- I
got an error message that they used the wrong file system, or something
like that. I uninstalled and re-installed AVG 6, and the disks were
readable again. I e-mailed a bug report: one of their techies suggested
this:

Do you have following key in your system registry?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BsUDF]
If yes, please set this value in it and restart.
"Start"=dword:00000004

I did so, but it made no difference. For now I'm sticking with AVG 6, at
least until I *have* to upgrade -- by which time I hope they will have
sorted this bug out, or until I've found a solution myself!

Mike

 

[Almarkia Rephariouski]

"Anthony Giorgianni" <[email protected]>
wrote in

A couple of issues with the new AVG 7.

1) Seems like the update url is unchangeable in the new free edition.
(To wit: "Modification of the URL path is available only in AVG
Professional.") Any work-arounds (no registry setting that I can
find.or program .ini file.)? Couldn't update this morning, though the
url was fine yesterday. Maybe it's better to do it through
"scheduler?"

2) I tried to cancel the non-update, and the update screen froze
repeatedly, requiring ctrl-shift-del to stop. Took numerous tries to
end the update task, and I get "AVGCC not responding."

3) Avg 7 interferes with Standby on my older Gateway 9300 WinSE laptop
(Win98se, Pen III 600, Bus Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Gateway 16.05
04/17/2000.) After pressing the standby sequence, standby sometimes
stalls for a minute or more or even freezes at the going-into-standby
notice. If I close the AVG control center in the task bar, the
computer proceeds into standby INSTANTLY every time. Not sure if it's
the new app itself it or some setting within it. I tried disabling
scheduled tasks, but same thing. Anyone else seeing this? Any creative
suggestions other than shutting down avgcc every time or moving to
Avast?

Anyone experiencing other issues with this new one?

Interesting you should ask, because that's why I'm now searching this ng.
Hmmm!

The big thing I'm noticing is that I have to re-orient myself with controls
in AVG7 Free - as opposed to AVG6 Free? It never was very intuitive, was
it? LOL. But I certainly found it to be most dependable on many occasions.

I agree with the observation that the lack of choices in update sites
should already be proving to be a detriment. AVG7 Free has already had a
substantial update since I first installed it Friday, and she's stalling,
freezing and squawking about my having "connection failed" problems, all
the while I'm streaming audio via WinAmp and downloading [articles] via
NNTP, etc.

The answer to that was simply wait it out [for the program to complete it's
sequences at it's own pace] [rather that stopping the process or
application with Task Mgr] and it finally worked itself out, located or
recognized or completed the connection to *it's* server - then you gets
that cute little information dialog "are ya absolutely sure ya wants to go
ahead and do this update thing?" with a bunch of info in the dialog box
that surely only a programmer would understand anyway. LOL! So, I just
click OK... What's it gonna do, break?

Kinda deja vu back to the root cause of editing the url.ini files in AVG6
Free, huh? Errrghhh. I get this strange feeling that the AVG-slavacians
are trying to do an underhanded, surreptitious bushwhack-beta the way they
are recruiting for their AVG7 Free forum?

And, while it's certainly a "pretty" improvement, I'm not really realizing
any upward momentum with regards to overall functionality - specifically
the automatic testing feature is going to run on all hard drives [on AVG6
you could select the areas] or you have to do it manually on selected areas
- which is basically what I've done all along anyway, I suppose.

I guess it may well all boil down to the "Get what ya pay fer" algorithm,
didn't Al Gore invent those anyway?

Oh well.

Cheerios

 

[bassbag]

A couple of issues with the new AVG 7.

1) Seems like the update url is unchangeable in the new free edition. (To
wit: "Modification of the URL path is available only in AVG Professional.")
Any work-arounds (no registry setting that I can find.or program .ini
file.)? Couldn't update this morning, though the url was fine yesterday.
Maybe it's better to do it through "scheduler?"

2) I tried to cancel the non-update, and the update screen froze repeatedly,
requiring ctrl-shift-del to stop. Took numerous tries to end the update
task, and I get "AVGCC not responding."

3) Avg 7 interferes with Standby on my older Gateway 9300 WinSE laptop
(Win98se, Pen III 600, Bus Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Gateway 16.05
04/17/2000.) After pressing the standby sequence, standby sometimes stalls
for a minute or more or even freezes at the going-into-standby notice. If I
close the AVG control center in the task bar, the computer proceeds into
standby INSTANTLY every time. Not sure if it's the new app itself it or some
setting within it. I tried disabling scheduled tasks, but same thing. Anyone
else seeing this? Any creative suggestions other than shutting down avgcc
every time or moving to Avast?

Anyone experiencing other issues with this new one?

I no longer use avg (have used the free and beta7 in the past)However i did
out of curiosity try the free 7 and found it to substanially slow down my
system ..also 98se and to freeze it occasionally.It seems to me to have some
issues with older operating systems at present in my opinion.
me