No Jim my comment was not aimed specifically at you. It was just a build-up of deja-vu that was setting in from questions being asked & answered in the later part of the thread that had already been covered earlier, not only your post. Yours just happened to be the last message. And mine comes across harsher than I meant it to, sorry.

> My only remaining problem is that the scheduled automatic updating doesn't seem to kick in as it should

That happens (or rather doesn't happen) to me too. But I actually prefer it this way because the old updates used to butt in the minute the computer had finished booting. They slowed everything down and I never like to do too much when anything important is downloading because sometimes I screw things up. So it always meant sitting there and waiting, something I am pretty bad at. Now I just click on the icon in the tray (which grows a red exclamation mark as a memory-prod) and do it at a convenient point in my session, like when I have to get up to go make tea, or deal with the logical consequences of that tea, or something. So choosing when I get the updates works better for me.

AVG updates are also way WAY quicker than the old Norton ones used to be, which didn't come nearly so often and took a thousand years. How can there be such a difference? It is little-&-often vs. fewer-&-bigger? No contest there.