Thanks guys LEE and SZ for having a look at my screenshot,you are correct about avast not having the red cross in the blue ball,i HAD enabled that before in the custom setup so i that I DID NOT have resident guard/web shield ect,i even went into add/remove programs to disable the guard!, and i did have the red cross previously,but i un-installed avast and re-installed it and forgot to do that my fault,but even when the red cross was in the blue ball i still had the same problem?,now and in the past.
I only have AVG as my resident guard AVPE is installed only as a on demand scanner without the RESIDENT GUARD enabled from the initial setup program,the other one which you can see in the toolbar is red is Bitdefender FREE 7.2 (far right toolbar) and is a scanner ONLY and has NO virus guard enabled in this free edition.
One more point i would like to make guys ,about 1 year ago i had only AVPE installed with virtually nothing else except zone alarm,spybot,adaware,win patrol that was it!,i uninstalled avpe COMPLETELY and installed AVAST 4.5 because of good reviews,i had exactly the same problem with the colours and desktop re-booting after selecting menu ect,so i had to un-install it unfortunately.
I have looked through the FORUM quite thoroughly to see if anyone else has had this problem now or in the past,and cannot find any one with the same problems as i have,i have also looked elsewhere on the net,so it looks like it must be something to do with me!,maybe i should un-install everthing and just load up AVAST and try that,what do you think?.
Regards the many icons in the system tray could this possibly be a cause a problem do you think,which ones would you suggest to have,and those to lose?,for me i like to keep an eye on everything hence the many icons
By the way thankyou all for a friendly and helpful forum,good advice with mannners,which some sites do not always afford.
best regards
southern man.