{"id":75436,"date":"2014-10-23T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=75436"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:24:04","slug":"how-to-configure-avast-2015-to-maximize-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-configure-avast-2015-to-maximize-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure Avast 2015 to maximize speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people will simply install <a href=\"http:\/\/avast.en.softonic.com\">Avast<\/a> and leave it at that. The antivirus, however, is more than just an orange icon in your system tray. By spending a couple of minutes configuring the options, you&#8217;ll be able to consume less resources and increase privacy.<\/p>\n<p>You might have an <strong>old PC<\/strong>, you might dislike your antivirus moving things around on you, or you might just want to turn off those annoying notifications. Whatever your issue is, Avast 2015&#8217;s<strong> options<\/strong> seem to have many of the\u00a0answers.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we&#8217;ll show you\u00a0a few options so that you can modify Avast 2015 to make it consume less resources and send you fewer notifications, while still maintaining a high level of security.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<h3>Find the setting that suits you best<\/h3>\n<p>Avast is one of the most <strong>customizable<\/strong> antiviruses: you can configure just about any one of its multitude of tools. Play around with the options and find the best settings for your antivirus so that along with helping, it doesn&#8217;t hinder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avast.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Avast Free Antivirus 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/avast-pro.en.softonic.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/avast-pro.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Avast Pro Antivirus 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avast-internet-security.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Avast Internet Security 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avast-premier-antivirus.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Avast Premier Antivirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Original article published in Spanish\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/articulos.softonic.com\/camo-configurar-avast-2015\">Softonic ES.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people will simply install Avast and leave it at that. The antivirus, however, is more than just an orange icon in your system tray. By spending a couple of minutes configuring the options, you&#8217;ll be able to consume less resources and increase privacy. You might have an old PC, you might dislike your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-configure-avast-2015-to-maximize-speed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to configure Avast 2015 to maximize speed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2537],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-75436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionavast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329939,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions\/329939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=75436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}