Recently I commented how avast had obviously taken it upon itself to change my Program Update setting to
Automatic and proceeded to try and update itself presumably to avast 17 until I headed it off at the pass and stopped it.
Well, it happened again yesterday, BUT ... this time I know what action preceded that. This time I know what the culprit is. Not that I am any less peeved.
Okay, first, for the 2nd time in recent weeks I encountered a problem that I couldn't solve without System Restore. In both instances, I don't know what I am accidentally clicking on in the System Tray, but suddenly my Task Bar disappears from the bottom and moves on to suddenly becoming a Sidebar on the right side of my screen.
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On both occasions, I Right Clicked all over that Sidebar to try and find a setting that I could change to regain my Task Bar back to the bottom of the screen. But, no dice. Both times I have had to resort to reverting back to an earlier System Restore point.
Anyone know what it is that I could accidentally be clicking on or doing in the System Tray that causes my Task Bar to become a Sidebar in the right side? I have included an image of my System Tray. To the left of the clock there's just the Epson Event Manager, the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver, the Safely Remove Hardware icon, the Speaker Volume, the Network Connection icon, avast and NetZero. Heck, I even have Mouse Gestures disabled in my Maxthon Cloud browser.
Anyway, after fixing yesterday's occurrence of the problem with System Restore, shortly thereafter I again like last time noticed that avast was taking forever to download what should have been just a batch of Virus Definitions. I checked and sure enough ... my Program Update setting was again moved back to Automatic after I specifically set it to MANUAL the other day.
It is my assessment that with the System Restore that I performed, avast obviously reset itself to factory defaults ... changing the Program Update setting to Automatic in the process. Is this normal avast behavior? HAS it always done that? I've never come across this situation before. Or is this something that avast was programmed to do upon System Restores only recently so as to stealthily force avast 17 upon those who have yet not switched over? Shouldn't a System Restore restore avast ONLY to whatever status and settings it was at at the time of the new System Restore point and NOT to factory defaults?
