@Dch48,
I don’t discard that your suggestion may work for this case, but let’s be clear: One thing is a tray icon not being displayed; another one is the tray icon saying that the system is “unsecured” while all the components in the GUI are reported as correct / OK / updated and the Security Center is all OK (green).
I think we should leave this case for Avast Team.
The icon not displaying the status correctly may mean that it’s being loaded too fast and not reporting all of the shields correctly because they haven’t fully loaded yet. If this is the case then it’s just another XP tray icon glitch. The fact that manually reloading the item fixes things would seem to confirm that. The StartupDelayer utility would very likely remove the problem once it was configured correctly.
I think we should wait for the OP to at least try the last few suggestion’s before going the next step.
Yes, they can’t hurt anything if they are tried.
Sure, but I would thought that the other change I already suggested (avast > settings > troubleshooting > “load avast service only after other system services”) and waiting a couple of minutes instead of restarting the service manually, would be enough (I mean with no need to use additional tools for the delay nor manual “tricks”).
If I understood correctly (but maybe I didn’t) the setting was already tried by the OP, while “just waiting” was not reported yet.
In any case, feedback from the OP would be a good thing now.
I think stopping unneccessary startup’s would be the benificial thing to try imo as it not only affects avast but the whole system functionality, loading avast after everything else should be a last resort.
The OP already has CCleaner so the additional tools are already there for there benifit so why not use it ??? and where talking about stopping unneccessary startups to improve performance not delaying them and these so called tricks as you call them is no more a trick than what you suggested by delaying avast.
Now if you can just refrain from a response untill the OP has replied about the suggested solutions then everything might be fixed hopfully without continuing to have to get the last post comments in which is just confusing and clogging up the thread.
I am having the problem. Tray icon says not secured but everything else says it is. This just started in the last week. Avast has been updated,reinstalled,repaired to no avail. I ran the eicor test and it worked just as it should. I am a basic user with only a little computer knowledge. Can anyone help? Using Windows XP(fully updated), latest version Avast, english and in United states.
Have you tried going through the options discussed in this thread ?
Bonjour
ah I not alone anymore… Its look like an update is doing something since a couple of weeks.
Also, when restarting the computer pressing start then restart or something like that in English, (I am using the French version) the not protected text for the icon appears once every 2 to 4 times.
I plan to add more RAM, presently using a 1466MHZ 512M RAM on XP.
My computer knowledge is above average , started with an TI-99 if your old enough to known what I am talking about beginning last century lolo
I upgraded my XP Pro system to 1.5GB and XP now loads a lot faster and avast! works a lot better.