avast just installed have question

[tar]

The avast icon is grey not blue.  Does this mean it is wating for something,  How do I get it to turn blue.  the program works fine and scans okay.

[techie101]

tar,

It needs to go see the icon doctor......
 

This sometimes happens when your monitor is set to other than 256 color standard.  Try changing the color setting in the monitor if it really bothers you.  I have my W98 showing a greyish color while my XP is true blue.
As long as all the functions appear normal, than it is not a concern for worry.

Disable the Resident Protection and see if an x appears across the icon.  This would indicate that you have stopped the Resident Protection, but more than that, indicates that things are as they should be.

Enjoy Avast.
 

[Vlk]

Also, please check the list of resident providers (by double-clicking the avast tray icon and selecting "Details...>>". Is the "Standard Shield" in the list (with the Superman-style icon)?

[chips]

I think there's no problem here, if the avast icon is there, it's good.
In some way you can see the avast icon as grey, for example, it's different from the the blue taskbar of windows xp.

[techie101]

As VLK has mentioned....if the providers appear to act normally, then I would not worry.
It appears to only be color-shading.
There should be a difference in color between the Windows taskbar blue and the Avast ball.  If they matched exactly....you wouldn't see the ball at all! hahaha

Have fun
 

[Walker]

On my Win XP the colour changes from blue when Avast is operating normally and turns grey when it is shut down ie 'no protection'. Or to be more precise, it used to with older version, don't know about the newest... haven't seen it lately. But I thought this was documented!.