AVG 8 is a problem only on Vista computers and not all Vista installs but
most.
Perhaps you did not see Christopher's post in this forum under Re: AVG 8.0 ?
I pasted it below.
Turning off the protected mode in IE7 should not be a problem for a while
until the fix from AVG is available to the general public. At least they
acknowledge at AVG that it is their problem.
Tony Zamboni
Christopher wrote:
> As like many others, I had problems printing from IE7 / Vista usinf Free
> AVG
> 8.0, I purchased a copy of AVG 8.0 to be able to secure their technical
> support.
>
> The response I have received is as follows.
> "According to your e-mail, after analysis of the AVG Diagnostic files,
> which you have sent us we have found that the situation, which you
> have described is caused by error in AVG 8.0.93 program version. This
> situation should be already resolved in Beta version of AVG Service
> Pack 1, which is available for download on our AVG Beta web page.
>
> We would like to inform you with that you can register to our Beta
> Portal and then download the latest AVG 8.0 Service Pack 1 Beta
> version, where the described situation should be resolved. If you
> don't want to use our Beta testing AVG program version, then we would
> like to ask you to wait until the public version of AVG 8.0 Service
> Pack 1 public version will be released. We will inform you when the
> new public version including fix for the described situation will be
> released via e-mail."
"Paul" <Paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F6E1018-E765-4CAF-8EDA-CAD2B81D5F49@microsoft.com...
>
> Thank you all.
>
> I do have AVG 8 on all my computers w/ Vista and XP and non of the others
> have this problem.
> However, I will uninstall it and see if that helps on this machine.
> I'll let all know!
>
> "Malke" wrote:
>
>> Paul wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > As you might guess, I am sort of new at this.
>> > I I re-install Vista, will I loose all my other stuff or do I have to
>> > re-install all my other programs again?
>>
>> As pointed out by The Traveler, this issue is most recently caused by AVG
>> 8.0. Do you have AVG 8.0 Antivirus installed?
>>
>> Malke
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