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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: ident on August 25, 2010, 10:09:39 PM

Title: Avast 5 System tray icon bug
Post by: ident on August 25, 2010, 10:09:39 PM
Since i cant find a avast 5 bug section il post it here.

If show system tray icon is off and you kill explorer.exe the icon will repear when you run explorer.exe

I'm on xp home,

Title: Re: Avast 5 System tray icon bug
Post by: pk on August 25, 2010, 11:58:52 PM
Another bug: when you kill avastui.exe, avast's tray icon is still present in system tray...

Unfortunately, tray icons are controlled by windows shell (= explorer.exe) and we can't remove/hide them directly from avast process. It's up to shell and sometimes it doesn't work correctly (especially if explorer.exe was terminated unexpectedly).