#How to turn on avast antivirus for windows 8 install
#How to turn on avast antivirus for windows 8 Pc

#How to turn on avast antivirus for windows 8 Pc

Now that you have configured avast! antivirus screensaver to scan your PC when it is idle, you can sit back, relax and wait for the screen saver to activate. You can choose loop scanning (this option starts scan all over again when finished scanning), window movement speed and whether to scan when your computer is running on batteries or not. In the settings, you can choose one of your favorite underlying screensaver (avast! antivirus does not have a screensaver of their own, it just scans when the screensaver is active). If you click on the settings button for the avast! antivirus screensaver, you can configure the settings for avast! antivirus screen-saver.Here you can select the avast! antivirus from the list of screen-savers as shown. This would open the familiar Screensaver settings window.In the Control Panel, first select the Appearance and Personlization and then Personlization and then click on the Change screen saver.

Open the Control Panel from the Administrator menu ( Ctrl + X) in Windows 8 or from Start Menu in earlier versions.Once you have completed the installation of avast! antivirus successfully, you can configure the avast! screensaver in your Windows PC by using the following steps: The latest version of the avast! antivirus can always be downloaded from their website at.

#How to turn on avast antivirus for windows 8 install

If you use avast! antivirus on your PC, then you can enable avast! antivirus screensaver which combines the best of the both worlds – scans your PC for malware while displaying your favorite screensaver at the same time.īefore you can start thinking of such a screensaver, you will have to install free avast! antivirus on your computer if you have not already done so. While most of the antivirus products have this feature of scanning your PC when idle, avast! antivirus seems to have taken it one step ahead – by performing virus scanning along with your Windows screensaver. But why not scan your computers when they are idle and not being used for anything. Everybody wants to keep their computers virus free and this is perhaps why you would often see the geeks scanning their hard disks for viruses once a week.