I have been complaining about this feature all day. it's driving me buggy. I've tried to find these settings that everyone posts and the way this 747 cockpit is layed out I can't find anything. I'm sure that maybe hundreds of people like myself have become so dicouraged with this, that they have as I am contemplating, uninstalled Avast!.
Well, actually it's not true... nothing in life is simple. If you want to use complex software with million functions, there is no other way... actually, everything is pretty much placed so logicaly... 747 cockpit ? You can always switch to another skin. Have you tried one of those plain skins made by me ? "Flat'n'Simple", "Corporate", "Lite-On" or maybe my latest release "RejZor-Sharp" ? Try one of those and you'll see that things can be different...
If I can't right click on the tray icon and see these things listed there I have to open the program and when I do I see this cockpit of total confusion, with it's little slide outs and popups, and I just do not like looking through a maze to find something. I hate, loathe and dispise looking for anything that should be in plain sight.
So many things should be placed on main screen, but again... there is no enough room to show them all. Unles you are asking Alwil Software to make avast! antivirus in resolution 1024x768 pixels... we shouldn't forget people who still use lower resolutions 640x480 or 800x600...
If anyone had to look for their steering wheel, throttle, or brakes every time they got in their car, I know, they would get very discouraged, as I am, at even wanting to use it.
Well, I think it took me approximately 15 minutes to learn where are all those options located. After that, it's like routine...
People like me need a choice and right click context menus are the perfect place to list all the controls of the entire application, at least until we learn the terminology, which is different with every program, and then we can display the application and its skins to enjoy.
Good point... that's why we have WHISH LIST in these forums. So, if you have more good suggestions like this one, you can post them in thread I just mentioned... Alwil guys listen all those wishes as usual. If they find it useful, they will fix the problem and in very next program update, you'll see your avast! as you requested...
What really bothers me is, until I learn this cockpit, I may be compromising my systems security, not having this checked and not having that unchecked.
If all this isn't true then you would not constantly be answering questions like mine. Where in the world is it, please?
Don't be paranoid. If you properly installed avast! you don't have to worry. All other settings are for fine tunning, and you'll not compromise your security just because you didn't uncheck "Show detailed information on performed action..." It's just cosmetic issue, and btw, it's disabled by default when you first install avast!
Alwil guys gives this program (avast! Home Edition) for free, they gives us free technical support here in forums, by the e-mail and by the phone... can you name another software house that will do that for users who uses just freeware version of their product ? I don't think so...
So be patient, please, everything will be OK.
Cheers !