Missing tray icon for Dexpot (desktop manager)

[Harlequin]

I run WinXP and recently installed Avast v10.  Avast made my notification tray icon for Dexpot disappear.  Dexpot is a utility which gives me multiple desktops and allows me to switch between them but it needs a tray icon to work properly.  It runs with real time priority.

As a test, I disabled Avast's file shield permanently (using the tray icon popup menu) but that does not allow the Dexpot icon to appear.

How can I get the Dexpot icon back?
 
 
   

[DavidR]

Since Avast isn't alerting (or you didn't mention it) it is strange that file shield wouldn't alert in some way.

Have you tried adding the Dexpot executable to the file system shield ?
I don't even recall if avast 10 has the behaviour shield or not, if so there is a possibility that could delay the start of Dexpot, causing it to fail.  But your saying disabling the file system shield, see is display on the system tray.

I don't know how dexpot functions to do its desktop switching.

The real problem is your having avast 10, very few that have used this in the distant past and those that have, will have forgotten much of its functionality and or settings.  Unfortunately I probably have more questions than answers.

[Harlequin]

David, thanks for the feedback. 

I have to use Avast version 10 because my old PC hardware doesn't support later versions.

Was Avast version 10 not very popular?

Is there any searchable help text for Avast v.10 because the context sensitive help is no good if I am trying to find a feature (such as warning symbols on the tray icon) which I can't locate?

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

It wasn't that avast 10 wasn't popular, new versions are developed and released and people move on.  Several years later people who have used it are likely to have forgotten much of its functions and settings, so it is hard to provide assistance.

Likewise on the avast.com site help/FAQs are going to be geared up for the current version only.

Have you adding the Dexpot executable to the file system shield as suggested ?

[mchain]

FYI, avast behavior shield was introduced in 2017:  https://blog.avast.com/behavior-shield-our-newest-behavioral-analysis-technology