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Offline Lisandro

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Re: Resident-Protection not working
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2005, 01:56:32 PM »
Okay. What's the next step in troubleshooting the icon not on the taskbar?

Some possibilities:

1. Fix tool for missing tray icons. Download it here: http://freeweb.siol.net/razor256/downloads/aswTrayIconFix.zip
Download it and extract aswTrayIconFix.exe anywhere you want. Run it and just click Fix button. Log off and log in again or simply restart your PC and icons should be back again. The program is standalone extract&use (although it looks like installer).

2. Or download avast! External Control clicking on 'Control' in my signature.
Unzip it and run. You'll see avast! tweaker option. Choose to show system tray icon and let us see if it helps.

3. 2. To fix the problem, just add the path to ashDisp.exe into
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(as the value named avast!).
Or, you can, copy the following code into a txt file and save it as *.REG and then click it to import to Windows Registry.

Code: [Select]
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"avast!"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Alwil Software\\Avast4\\ashDisp.exe\""

You should use the correct avast installation folder in the path above and remember to use the doubled slashes \\

4. Are you by any chance using spysweeper? If so, use the restore/recover or whatever it may be called to restore the deleted registry entry and update your definitions file for spysweeper. It reports incorrectly (false positive) the avast ashDisp.exe which is the icon you see on your system tray.
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