Yo Window Freezing at start up Splash Screen

[dasaunders]

Hey All,

I am a registered user of Yo Window running version 2 on windows XP. I love Yo Window! Have not had any issues since installing it a few months back. However, when I changed my anti-virus program from Avira to Avast 5 I have had yo window freeze up on me a couple of times. I just get the black initialization screen reading "yowindow". Mouse clicks or keyboard will not allow me to exit the program. Any ideas? I will keep an eye on things and try a reinstall of Yo Window to see if that fixes the issue. Are there any known issues or conflicts with Avast 5?

Thanks in advance,

Doug

[FvE]

Hi Doug,

I have no experience with Avast, don't know it.
Just to find out if there's a conflict, I was wondering what happens when you disable Avast.
Does YoWindow function again the way you were used it to function?

Goodluck,
Fred

Edit: Did you check the Avast's website?
Maybe there's a workaround for these kind of issues, assuming it's an Avast's conflict of course.

[Mallorca]

Hi Doug,
I had a look at the German forum of Avast and found there are lot of problems/conflicts with other programms. I have no experience and I don't like to install it to have a look for options in this antivire. Perhaps it could be also a conflict with your firewall now. But it is easy to try out were the problem is: deactivate Avast and see what will be happen...

You wrote, you are yousing Yowin version 2 ... this say nothing! Please install the latest RC (its 432 actually) and try again.
I'm using Avira 10 premium without any problems.
Werner

[Wally©]

Perhaps Avast is a slow starter and doesn't allow for any program to open fully untill the anti-virus engine is fully loaded...

Try putting the yowindow install directory in Avast's exception list...

I'm on Windows7 and use AVG internet security 2011 with no issues...so far...

[Don]

Are there any known issues or conflicts with Avast 5?

Hello Doug,
I have been using avast! for a long time and have never encountered any issues between it and YoWindow.

Don

[UPDATE] I just updated avast! to version 5.1.864 and it caused some problems (slow boot-up, some programs loading slowly), and I fixed it by running the uninstaller and choosing the repair option. You might want to give that a try and see if it helps.