While the satellite connection was out (heavy overcast), I switched over to and updated my Vista SP1 drive. This is the one the youth at our regional gathering had been playing around with and had gotten it out of sync. I had been working on it and all I had left was to fix the networking. They had changed the group name back to WORKGROUP so it would talk to their laptops. Of course they didn't tell me and when I got home it wouldn't talk to my network.

Interesting the usage figures are closer to but still less than the XP numbers.

The Avast! usage is 1,924K and the SuperAntispyware usage is 32,136K. The total memory usage with Firefox active is 35% (55MB). The system panel now shows the full 4.00GB of memory, but that may just be the actual, not the effective memory.

The reason the Voice sounds off in Coastie's machine is that he is running XP Media Center Edition 2005. I call it Vista Lite as it has some of the GUI enhancements of Vista (rounded window corners, window frame becomes transparent when you move the window, and better support for Wide monitors). He likes to point out that it still says XP on boot.

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Ah, finally an Upgrade. Where's the hallelujah choir so that they can sing for us?

Time to update my system

Hi Parker. It's trying to connect to the internet so that it can automatically update itself. That is not a new feature. AVG 7.5 did the same thing. In order for the application to stay current, it has to download the latest definitions. In order to download the latest definitions, it must have access to the internet.

In the previous version of AVG (7.5) if the definitions were outdated, one would see a grayed out box in the System Tray. Now, in the latest version (8.0), instead of a grayed out box, there is an exclamation point.

If that is not a sufficient enough answer for you and you still want to find alternative to AVG, please open a new Discussion. This Discussion id related solely to the upgrade from AVG 7.5 to 8.0.

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That is not the case. Please take a close look at this snippet. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)

Under Task Settings, you can either enable or disable the Program Update Schedule. If you place a check mark in the box, the feature will be enabled so that the application will update itself automatically. If you take the check mark out of the box, the feature is disabled.

You can get to this option under Tools -> Advanced Settings -> Click the next to Schedules to expand the section. From there you can enable or disable scheduled scans, virus database updates, and program updates.

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To be honest, I do not know what you want us to tell you. The exclamation indicates that the application or the database needs to be updated. I have been using AVG since 7.0 and no matter what the graphical representation, if the application or the database were outdated, AVG would let me know.

Since this is obviously a specific question, please open a new Discussion detailing your concerns.

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Hi Piyush. Someone mentioned in another Discussion stated that Grisoft will support 7.5 until the end of the year.

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hi mph

thanx for that update. I found this in agreement with your post . So, avg stays on my system till this year ends.

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Nothing is true , Everything is permitted.

Stick with 7.5 - 8.0 has lots of cons vs 7.5