Avast WEBforum

Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: kentdgr8 on December 08, 2004, 01:52:58 PM

Title: no icon near the clock
Post by: kentdgr8 on December 08, 2004, 01:52:58 PM

hello to all,

im a new user of this avast for i've read that it is a great s/w and not a HOG in resources so i tried it out ..

after installing it restarted and scaned my whold HD .. but as it started i can't locate anything to make it autoload or auto start .. i have to start the shortcut it created int he desktop

as i read the help file it mentioned a small "letter a" near the clock area but i can't find it ..

did i do sumthing wrong ?

btw im using winxp sp2

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: kentdgr8 on December 08, 2004, 02:05:06 PM

sorry guyz

got it myself .. i just added ashDisp.exe in the startup menu ..

anyways thanks

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: CoJo on December 08, 2004, 02:12:02 PM

kentdgr8, welcome to the forums!
Glad you got your problem fixed...
cojo

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: Eddy on December 08, 2004, 02:38:54 PM

To be sure, check if the scanning (on-access as well as mail) is working with the eicar test file.

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: willandbarb on December 08, 2004, 04:23:26 PM

We have this problem too.  We have Windows98.
We had excellent results immediately after downloading yesterday.  The resident protection caught 3 viruses in email in the first hour.
Today, after booting, Avast did not load. When started with the desktop icon, resident protection was disabled. After enabling to "standard", no blue balls appeared near the clock.  
We ran ashDisp.exe and nothing seemed to change.
thanks for any help.

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: Eddy on December 08, 2004, 04:39:15 PM

Try a repair of Avast.

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: willandbarb on December 08, 2004, 05:32:10 PM

Thank you for your reply.
Could you please direct me to instructions for "a repair of Avast"?

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: DavidR on December 08, 2004, 06:10:50 PM

Window, add remove programs > avast anti virus > Change Remove button. From the window scroll down and select Repair.

This may not work with win98 as the Change/Remove may only allow for Remove only. If that is the case you will have to uninstall avast/reboot/install avast/boot and check if that has cleared the problem.

Title: Re:no icon near the clock
Post by: igor on December 08, 2004, 06:35:42 PM

It works the same on all systems - no matter what the (Windows) button says. So, the "Repair" function is always there - it's a part of avast!.