Warning of the security center doesn't work

[Thomas Kuck]

The security center doesn't warn me anymore when I disable my resident
scanner of my anti virus to play games.
The AV program is Avast Pro (updated this morning) and I disable to run
games with high system requirements (Far Cry and the like).

I had a (possibly) not related problem with Windows Update and some guys
gave me a great batch file with a lot of regserv entries and it worked
again. Something similar available for this problem?

Underneath the specs of my machine as per Dxdiag:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 2/22/2005, 11:36:24
Machine name: KOLOSSUS
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service
Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Compaq Presario 061
System Model: DK248A-ACJ S4130IN IN210
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 266MB used, 1015MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: /Silent
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

 

[DJ Borell]

The security center doesn't warn me anymore when I disable my resident
scanner of my anti virus to play games.
The AV program is Avast Pro (updated this morning) and I disable to run
games with high system requirements (Far Cry and the like).

I had a (possibly) not related problem with Windows Update and some guys
gave me a great batch file with a lot of regserv entries and it worked
again. Something similar available for this problem?

Windows Security Center does not recognize Avast!. Therefore, I would infer
that your monitoring of antivirus has been disabled. If this is the case,
you will not get a warning that your antivirus is not running when you
disable it. To re-enable monitoring, change the setting in Security Center
(via Control Panel). However, this will not net you anything except a
constant warning that your computer is not protected as, again, Windows
Security Center does not recognize Avast!

 

[Thomas Kuck]

I had thought of that and checked. It says: "avast! antivirus 4.5.603
[VPS 0508-0] reports that it up to date and virus scanning is on"
When I disabled it some time ago it always gave me the balloon with the
warning, it stopped doing that approximately two weeks ago.