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Ampa
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Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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March 20, 2011, 03:15:00 AM »
I have fully updated Win7 SP1 running Avast6 (also up to date)
Often times the orange ball icon is missing from my system tray / sys notification area.
It is not simply hidden - extender menu doesn't show it - and besides option set to always show.
Avast Antivirus service is running - but not confident i am being protected!
Advice or help please,
Thank you,
Ampa
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Lisandro
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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March 20, 2011, 03:25:23 AM »
Which was your previous antivirus?
Any other security program?
Did you try repairing the avast installation?
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Ampa
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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March 20, 2011, 03:31:55 AM »
Previous AV: Avast 5
Other security: Comodo Firewall 5 Free
By repair what do you mean precisely? I am trying a reinstall > modify > ensure all components selected (except language translations)
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Lisandro
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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March 20, 2011, 03:36:43 AM »
Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast! antivirus > Remove. Then choose Repair function in the popup window (Repair).
Isn't Comodo or Defense+ blocking anything on avast? avastUI.exe for instance?
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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March 20, 2011, 03:52:25 AM »
OK done the repair as you suggested.
Checked Comodo logs, couldn't see anything to do with AvastUI. Some mentions of AvastScv but nothing that seemed odd. Still - cleared the log and will keep an eye on it.
For now icon is present.
Thanks for your help so far
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Peter Blair
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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June 10, 2012, 01:17:16 AM »
To get the orange ball in the system tray:
Start/Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/Taskbar an Start Menu/Customize
Find Avast Icon
Under "Behaviors" select "Show Icon and Notifications"
Not sure if you have to re-boot or not???
Hope this helps. This seems to be a common problem.
Pete
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Re: Avast6 Win7 orange ball icon goes missing from system tray
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June 10, 2012, 02:07:56 AM »
Peter, there is little value in responding to a topic that is over a year old, and for a different version of avast.
So it is hard to say this is a common problem when talking of a historic topic, certainly not for the latest version of avast.
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