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| Thread ID: 45033 | 2004-05-07 01:29:00 | avg free edition - restricted user, no updates? | falvrez (390) | Press F1 |
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| 234955 | 2004-05-07 01:29:00 | hello all At home I have a (from work) compaq laptop preloaded with XP Pro. I was using NAV 2002 but it just got so damn buggy and the updates were getting huge so I dumped it for the time being and am using the AVG free edition, which seems almost perfect - especially the price. Anyway my son also uses my laptop so I have him setup as a restricted user in XP pro (so he can't install anything), but I've found that (like NAV) AVG updates don't work when someone is logged in as a restricted user. I'm guessing it's something to do with the updates editing the registry (seemed that way for NAV). Any ideas? I'm keen for the updates to work at any time but this seems like a real downfall for both AVG and NAV. Any sysadmins out there using stand alone versions of NAV or AVG on a network with XP Pro and restricted users? Same problem? Have searched the net and found a patch for NAV for Win2k but that's all - no other mentions of this problem at all. Perhaps I'm missing something simple? Thanx in advance for any help. |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 234956 | 2004-05-07 01:52:00 | The free version of AVG is more basic than the paid version so I doubt you will find a workaround for your problem on that version. If you are prepared to upgrade to the paid version you could email AVG and ask them if it will do what you want first. Personally I just update AVG whenever I am on the computer and/or when merlin-nz posts a notification that a new update is out. It is no big deal. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 234957 | 2004-05-07 21:19:00 | HI Susan Problem is as I said this happened with paid version of NAV (not that there's a free version of NAV anyway!) so if it's the same problem for both AV programs, you would think someone would have solved it by now? |
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