Avast Does Not Autostart

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

After rebooting, Avast does not automatically appear in the System Tray. I can go into the Program Folder for Avast and manually start it. How do I set it to autostart upon reboot?

2

Hi…

Did you just recently install avast? If so, did you use another AV program or upgrade from a previous version of avast?

Best Regards…

3

No, I’ve been using Avast exclusively for over 3 years. Last month I reformatted my drive and reinstalled Windows, and then installed a fresh download to Avast Free version. Last year I was using the Pro version.

It’s only been fairly recently that I’ve had this issue. Could it be related to installing Spybot S&D - even though I’ve used that with Avast before?

4

Hi…

Ok :slight_smile:

Spybot should have no role to play in this. To my knowledge, there haven’t been any problems in this way between the two programs.

I would first try performing a repair installation and see if that helps, if you haven’t done this already. If you’re using Windows XP, just go to the Control Panel and then “Add/Remove Programs” and then avast.

If this doesn’t work, try uninstalling avast and reinstalling it from scratch. Use the uninstall utility here…

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-uninstall-utility.html

Let us know how it goes. :slight_smile:

Best Regards…

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  1. Check the option in the Appearance tab of settings.
    or
  2. Repair your avast installation through Control Panel.
    or
  3. Make a link to ashdisp.exe in your startup folder
    or
  4. Add the path to ashDisp.exe into a value named avast! in the Windows Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
    See picture here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26155.msg213891#msg213891

If that does not help, please, uninstall, boot, install again, boot.

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That doesn’t actually prove that avast didn’t auto start, just that the avast icon is missing, follow Tech’s instructions to try and recover it.

Spybot’s resident protection, Tea-Timer (if enabled) could well have a hand in this is as it can block new start-up entries. I would have though you would have got a notification about ashDisp.exe rather than simply disabling it.

To confirm avast is actually running - What avast processes are running in Task Manager, they begin with ash or asw, see image ?