I am trying to explain this in proper terms, so here goes: There were to rotating balls at the bottom right side of my computer and when I had to reinstall Avast, they are no longer there. Is this a problem? Hope you can understand what I mean.
mittensdf
Yes, you missed an startup entry for ashDisp.exe (the 'icons').
Are you using any monitoring application like TeaTimer, Ad-Watch, PrevX...?
You can try to solve this, disabling these applications, going to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast > Change/Remove
And repairing your installation (last option on the pop-up window).