*Whoooooosh* (The sound of SD's post going straight over my head [at first quick read]).
Update, however: I was forced into moving a tad faster. Went to the little icon in the bottom tray, pulled up the interface - all components running nicely - no way to turn any of them off for a while.
Did the 'exit" bit on the tray manager - that closed, but all componnets still running.
Went to Task manager, found a file under "Processes" called avgtray.exe Stopped the process. Looked under "Services" tab - found one called avg8wd - which said alongside "AVG8 Watchdog". Stopped it.
All components still running.
Had to fully uninstall AVG from both my laptop and my desktop to be able to do what I wanted.
Jeppesen software installed cleanly.
Vista SP1 still refuses to load either automatically through Windows Update or the manual installation proffered by Microsoft.
I've been in a chat session with Microsoft for over three hours as they get me to run diagnostic checks on the files. Seems some of the original Vista files corrupted on their way in to take residence on my hard drive after the computer build.
I'm now in an "Upgrading Windows" session which is driven entirely by the original Vista software disc. "Your upgrade may take several hours to complete" it says here.
Then have to run update again to get anything that came after SP1. Sigh.
Guess I'll then have to re-install AVG (as it's free - and does fairly well).
I'd still be VERY interested to know if anybody discovers a way of "Temporarily disabling AVG".
=^..^=
Forgot to say:
Error code kept coming up when battling SP1 was 0x80070026 - which turns out to be very non-specific.