Martin Z:
Hi. Thanks for your response. Answer: No. See, on the first day I run a scheduled custom scan after an update, a message box automatically pops up. The message box shows me how far along the scan is. It indicates the scan's progress in terms of percentage and, I guess as a further visual clue, simultaneously shows scan progress using the moving bar method. I've found this message tool helpful. I can glance at my laptop screen while passing by my desk, see how far my scan has progressed, and thus use my scan-running time to take care of non-desk work, so I'll be all ready for desk work after the scan is completed. Something like that, anyway. Unfortunately, the scan progress indicator, auto-popup message box (or whatever it's called) only works on Day One, but never appears again. I've been able to start it on a same-day basis by changing my UI settings, deleting then rescheduling my custom scan, cleanly removing and reinstalling the latest Avast edition (my process includes clean reinstall method Bob supplied me via link), and other techniques suggested here, but the message box still refuses to appear beyond Day One (except during a previous edition, when it agreed to show itself for three days before withdrawing again). As I stated earlier, the auto-indicator is useful to me, but of course not as valuable as Avast's excellent (and free!) security protection, and its otherwise mostly user-friendly interface, despite some other bugs in the new edition (18.1.2326), as mentioned here and possibly yet to be encountered. ? I don't know why this particular tool continues to malfunction, but I'm hopeful that its failure doesn't much matter -- doesn't indicate other problems elsewhere -- and that it will eventually be fixed. Is it a known bug?
Well, whatever. I'll attach the snip of it again, just in case my vocabulary and overall problem description here is misleading. Sorry. Thanks. Thanks for your work with Avast, for providing and managing this forum, and for your individualized forum input/output. !
--jjb