Avast icon & win 8

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I finally got avast to work 0n my windows 8. but I cant for the life of me figure out how to get the icon in the taskbar tray.The only way is to do it manualy every time I turn the PC on. Anyone out there have an idea on how do i get the avast icon to stay in the tray?

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/use-the-taskbar

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Have you looked in the Hidden Icons tab ( arrow ) next to the time/date at the bottom right ?

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Have you tried a repair ???

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Tried repair reinstall poking pushing swearing and a few unmentionables still no go. Not knowing if its running or updating is the pits. I know its doing its thing in the background,but in the back of my mind I want to know without having to go through the the whole process of having to manualy look.

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This always worked on stubborn PC’s in Windows 7 and should work in Windows 8

  1. Back up the Registry by creating a restore point. Or When you start regedit, Save a copy before editing.
  2. Go to Start > Run (or Windows-key + R), type in regedit and hit OK.
  3. Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify.
  4. Delete the values IconStreams and PastIconsStream.
  5. Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and click End Process.
  6. Open the Applications tab and click New Task at the bottom-right of the window.
  7. In the message box that pops up type in explorer.exe and hit OK.
  8. Explorer.exe will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.
  9. Then if the volume bar isn’t there, go to taskbar properties (where the volume was gray) and simply tick the box.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1370622792066-2300.png

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Do it safely with FileTools Menu http://www.lopesoft.com/en/
You’ll need to run as admin and you can enable/disable all the items on the Windows Explorer context menu :slight_smile: