Taskbar notification area and 4.7.981

[DavidR]

Well the Group element was what we trialled before for the avast fast start and no one reported any issues with the system tray icons

[avvidro]

Please open regedit, go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\avast! Antivirus and delete the value called "Group". Then restart the computer and report if the change had any effect on the issue.

Ok I deleted the "group" value like you suggested, restart (using 4.7.981)
The both icons are back and function properly.
Yep. That seems to fix it.

Ok, I have to surrender to the facts, but it is still a fact that this issue happens (with me at least, at home and at work) even without Avast! installed. Well, I'll follow the clue listed here.

[DavidR]

If you haven't got avast installed then this registry Key and 'Group' Value shouldn't exist. The 'Group' value has only been added with the latest Program Update (and for those using the previous beta version). So even if you had a previous version of avast installed at some time this value still wouldn't be there, in your case it has to be something else.

[avvidro]

If you haven't got avast installed then this registry Key and 'Group' Value shouldn't exist.

OK David, the value indeed does not exist, I referred to the "fenomenon" of loss of icons alone with or wihout Avast! installed  . And I came to think (and say  ) that Avast should not be "suspected" to cause the issue.

in your case it has to be something else.

So I'll follow the clues, named startup services dependencies and keys and values related to icons in sys tray.

[traviscn]

i had the same problem with the disappearing taskbar icons but i followed this advice

Open avast antivírus and go to configuration. There's a menu inside avast antivírus. Above general, there's a option that show Avast icon. If checked, un check it. May be you need re-start. When re-starts, re-do this and check it.

and after several reboots on my XP SP2 system it has not reoccurred.