[Sir Richard]

Originally Posted by johnmarson

Powerarchiver takes like 5 seconds to open when avast is enabled...
avast starts sf.bin whenever powerarchiver is run...think that has something to do with it.
When I disable avast, powerarchiver opens instantly.

I dont think I had this problem with versions before 7.0.1451.

I have added POWERARC.EXE to avast file system shield exclusion list because of this windows 7 64 bit, intel i7 920, avast free 7.0.1451

Hi Johnmarson,

Thanks for the post! Can you confirm thta by adding "PowerArc.exe" to avast's Exclusion it resolved the issue? or did the issue continue?

It might also note that Avast has updated their software to version 8, it might be worth Uninstalling the current version and downloading the latest to see if this also resolves the problem.