AVG 8 Updates require daily restarts

patricia1066

I upgraded the AVG recently, and have experienced really slow restarts (the three part install takes four or five minutes each time)
As soon as the update has been downloaded you get a prompt to restart, which repeats every few minutes. Then you restart. Slow boot up while the install 3 part process continues.
Is this familiar to others, or is it just me?
Is there a better alternative?
Edit: I have Vista Premium, and its the AVG8 free edition

*MF*

Hi ... I am no way techie, ok, all I can tell you is that AVG8 is not working that way for me since downloading, it's been trouble free - and only suggestion I can make is why not delete your current download and then re-install a second attempt.

Others more techie will advise better - but that's my 2p.

buglawton

AVG 7.5 has started to ask for restarts after an update too.

drdeepakjoseph

Hi
I had the same problem, and this is what I did.

Start>My Computer > C > Program files > AVG > AVG8
in AVG8:
Look in the folder where AVG is installed...
Look for a file named updatecomps.cfg.prepare, if that file exists, then delete the file named updatecomps.cfg and then rename updatecomps.cfg.prepare to updatecomps.cfg.
Then restart the computer to see if the issue is resolved.

I got the info from the free AVG forum. If the above does not fix the issue, just look into other solutions given on the same website. The link to the free avg fourum is
http://freeforum.avg.com/list.php?13,page=1

The link to the section which I found useful is
http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?13,137492,backpage=5,sv=

MAKE SURE YOU READ THE ADVICE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU PROCEED. Then again if you get it wrong, at worst you will need to re-install AVG, which is FREE!!
cheers
DJ:A