Might it be a good idea to post details of programs proving incompatible
with Windows 10 on the grounds that it may help others to avoid problems?

I installed the latest version (2015.10.0.2206) of Avast! antivirus in
build 9860 yesterday - running in a VM. I ran quick scan, which worked
OK. Then got an odd pop up telling me that rundll32.exe had problems, so
I went to their forum to check the false positive where it was the
general opinion that it was not installable. I opened my big mouth and
said I had just installed it OK and it was running. Shortly thereafter I
was proved totally wrong when all Hell broke loose. Explorer.exe seemed
to have disappeared, error messages popped up all over, and I could not
longer close down Windows 10, nor could I close the VM and get back into
my normal system. I had to force a shutdown with the power switch
(fortunately doing no harm to my Windows 7 system) rerun Windows 10,
download the Avast! removal tool before things seized up, reboot into
safe mode and run it, and finally do a complete system refresh to get
Windows 10 to run again - so much damage had been done, that it was the
only way to fix it.

If you're still with me after all that rambling - the message is don't
try to install Avast!


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Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.