Avira scan file context menu missing after update, disabling all manual scans, including Windows Defender (win 10)
Windows 10 home system. After automatic update(s) the context menu for manual scan of file(s) vanished/ no longer available. No fix was working, including uninstal + reboot+reinstall or repair. I used the download link (avira_en_sptl1_83579714-1638425217__pavwws-spotlight-release). After uninstall windows defender context menu was working, but after reinstall of avira (free version) there was no option for manual file scans, including windows defender. I do not know if free shell extension context file menu software can fix it and do not want to try it!
I was using the free version for more than 12 years on multiple systems and was very happy with it. Now only options I have are:
1. Continue using Avira software with no option(s) for manual file scan, at least until a fix is available "in the public form" and/or Avira company official website
2. Uninstall (any/ free) Avira software products and use something else.
3. Buy a premium version, contact support, have a ticket and/or (hopefully) get the problem solved.
I really hope that the free version will not silently vanish like the manual file scan context menu option!
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After seeing that is an issue for more than a month (as today 07.18.2022) and still not solved with a fresh download/ reinstall I sadly uninstalled my (free) Avira Antivirus.
Funny enough, I reinstalled a fresh Avast (free) Antivirus copy, a program that which I was using 12+ years ago (for about a couple of years) before/ prior to switching to Avira. Avast HAS the file context menu option enabled, even they are way more agressive advertising their paid products.
Removing (by accident or not) an OS option (manual file scan file context menu) and not solving/ fixing it for more than a month is really a bad (marketing?) decision, even for a free version of a product.
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