animated icon

[Gopher John]

Back on topic, if you disable *any* of the shields, the icon no longer rotates.
is it WAD?  Seems a strange choice.

I have the Mail Shield disabled, and the system tray icon still rotates.  Avast 5.1.798 seem to be working fine here.  I've done a standard Quick scan, right click scan from Windows Explorer, and all that seems fine.

The only thing I've seen is the issue with the path corruption in the AvastGUI, as others have noted.

[davexnet]

Well I'm using version 5.0 - and it doesn't behave the way you described.
perhaps this is one of the "improvements" in the interface on the 5.1 beta.

I must say, version 5.0 does seems a little rough around the edges.

[YoKenny]

Back on topic, if you disable *any* of the shields, the icon no longer rotates.
is it WAD?  Seems a strange choice.

WAD

must say, version 5.0 does seems a little rough around the edges.

You need to use it to see that it is as smooth as silk.

But then an AMD64 Vista Ultimate running Vista will be like a sow's ear.

[davexnet]

You're right about Vista - that's why I hardly use it.  On the other hand XP works great
on my modest box.

It's just my impression.  By rough around the edges, I meant some of the UI choices (or lack of them).

I once had a TV like that.  The order of the options in the menu, direct functionality from the remote,
other ergonomic problems - They were all fixed on the  succeeding model.  It was essentially the
same TV, but all the ergonomic design issues were put right.

[davexnet]

I've just installed the latest 5.1 beta and the icon still does  not rotate if any of the shields
are stopped (the behavior shield, for example).  Since DavidR seemed to be saying his icon
was rotating normally, I wonder if it's because I'm on XP?

What else could it be?  I'm stumped.

[Gopher John]

I've just installed the latest 5.1 beta and the icon still does  not rotate if any of the shields
are stopped (the behavior shield, for example).  Since DavidR seemed to be saying his icon
was rotating normally, I wonder if it's because I'm on XP?

What else could it be?  I'm stumped.

DavidR ( and I) are both running WinXP Pro SP3, so that's not it.  Do you have the Field Shield enabled?  If it's not enabled, there's much less reason for the icon to rotate.

[DavidR]

Well I see my icon rotating during boot and when I launch any application and when I send email; so it is obviously scanning files, emails, etc. and the icon rotates.

Stopping one shield other than the file system shield shouldn't impact on the others. However, when you stop a shield you get the yellow triangle and exclamation mark over the avast icon, so that status won't be animated.

If you change the avastUI, Settings, Status Bar and uncheck the monitoring of the shield you have stopped, no exclamation mark and the icon rotates again.

[davexnet]

Well I see my icon rotating during boot and when I launch any application and when I send email; so it is obviously scanning files, emails, etc. and the icon rotates.

Stopping one shield other than the file system shield shouldn't impact on the others. However, when you stop a shield you get the yellow triangle and exclamation mark over the avast icon, so that status won't be animated.

If you change the avastUI, Settings, Status Bar and uncheck the monitoring of the shield you have stopped, no exclamation mark and the icon rotates again.

DavidR, that may have been the piece I missed, I'll check it and report back -
Thanks.

EDIT I disabled behavior,IM & p2p shields then deselected same from the "status bar" screen.  The icon is now operating normally as you said.
It says it "controls the behavior of the status bar on the current status page".

Then it says "please use the check boxes below to to specify which of the avast! components will be monitored by the status bar"
What is the "status bar" ?

[davexnet]

I saw a strange behavior in the latest beta.
After disabling IM, p2p & behavior shield, the Network shield was neither stopped not started.
I tried to start it, but there was a message about "unable to communicate"

For now I've reverted to 5.0 and just disabled "behavior", along with the concomitant setting
in the "status bar".

[DavidR]

The Status Bar that it is monitoring are the shields you have 'installed' and is where the avast icon is. So if a shield you have is installed is disabled it alerts you in the area of the icon by changing the icon displayed.

As far as I'm aware this was the same in avast5.0 if the icon was changed it wouldn't be an animated icon.