May be just temp … reboot Win may fix … but icon now generic Win. Also happens on task bar until advast is fully started unlike other programs. Windows 7 (7057) only in beta.
Because I just installed this, had to get my reg. key from advast and install… do you now download bottom advertising, or is this just a ‘one off’ for April 1st?
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I have this same exact problem in Windows 7 this date 11-01-09. I just installed Win 7 yesterday and installed Avast. I noticed today I have a generic icon in the Start Menu. The icon in the Taskbar is also generic but after a few minutes it turns into the Avast blue icon.
My Win 7 isn’t Beta or RC. It is the Home Premium Retail and I did a clean install.
But the Start Menu icon stays generic.
I know this post I am replying to was from March 30, 2009 but thought I would reply so someone may see it and know that this isn’t an isolated problem to only one person.
If anyone knows why the problem and what can be done, please reply.
Basically, the start menu is a fancy way of showing a shortcut, so I am not sure whether this may or may not be an avast! issue itself.
That said, have a go at this:
Start → Right click on avast! antivirus → Properties -->‘Shortcut’ tab -->Near the bottom, there are three buttons, click ‘Change Icon’ → In the new window that opens, click browse → Navigate to, and choose this file:
Thanks for the reply. I did as you directed and no luck. Still the same generic icons.
In error in my last post I said that the one on the Task Bar bar was back but it isn’t. It is also still the generic icon.
It seems all was fine until I installed a couple of programs. Not sure which the last two were. I think one was Roxio 9.0 and one was Microsoft Offiice 2003. Maybe a install of them or something else created the problem.
In previous reply I made to spg SCOTT I would like to mention that I tried his instructions again and this it worked for the icon in the Start Menu. After I did what he said this time before clicking on OK, I had to click on the icon that was displayed to select it.
Now the icon in the Start Menu is back and will see if it stays.
However, the icon in the taskbar is still the generic one. This is in Win 7 and when I right click on it I don’t get properties. You just get avast antivirus to open the program and unpin from taskbar. You can right click on the avast antivirus and get properties and I did what you said again but still generic.
So, I unpinned it from taskbar. Went back to Start Menu and told it to pin to taskbar and low and behold I now have the blue icon back in the taskbar. Hopefully both the Start Menu one and the taskbar one will stay.
Thanks for the information and help. Really appreciate it.
