I'm the one who had a forced upgrade after using an old Avast 20 install for years.
Got most everything else working again including the UI mouse clicks but I cannot seem to find a fix for this one.
It seems to be timing related but I do not want to use the delayed start option.
I don't think the repair is actually repairing anything as there is likely nothing broken, instead I think it is timing and the Avast low level drivers are not getting properly inserted so it fails.
Something about the repair process changes the boot process on the next boot to where Avast loads in some kind of different way (or maybe it's actually the delayed loading way).
Discovered this by looking at all the services running, the Avast service is not running when there is a red X present on the tray icon.
If I try to use the manual start feature in the services management, it will won't start.
I noticed the service has a fallback setting for too many fails
"C:\Program Files\Avast Software\Avast\setup\instup.exe" /instop:repair /wait
So I created a shortcut for that and sure enough, manually running that before the next start prevents the red x.
Thoughts on a permanent fix?
