My Avast isn’t showing in my taskbar. I don’t know how to enable it. Please help. Thank you!
Download avast! External Control clicking on ‘Control’ in my signature.
Unzip it and run.
You’ll see avast! tweaker option.
Choose to show system tray icon and let us see if it helps.
Another way to fix the problem, just add the path to ashDisp.exe into
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(as the value named avast!).
Are you by any chance using spysweeper?
If so, use the restore/recover or whatever it may be called to restore the deleted registry entry and update your definitions file for spysweeper. It reports incorrectly (false positive) the avast ashDisp.exe which is the icon you see on your system tray.
For the ‘i’ icon (VRDB): http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14356.msg121337#msg121337
Fix tool for missing tray icons. Download it here: http://www.excessive-software.tk/
Download it and extract aswTrayIconFix.exe anywhere you want.
Run it and just click Fix button. Log off and log in again or simply restart your PC and icons should be back again. The program is standalone extract&use (although it looks like installer).
I’m not using Spysweeper and when I click on control in your sig, it takes me there but there is no option to enable the tray icon. There are just 3 options:Show virus tag on virus detection, Web Shield Power Mode, and Create Desktop Shortcut for Avast Chest.
I’m not sure how to do the thing with the registry and don’t want to screw it up.
Thanks!
Hank
Ok, maybe RejZor, the author has changed this feature in new versions.
Maybe the better will be just repairing your installation. Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > Repair (you must be connected to Internet).
Something is avoiding you to run ashdisp.exe (the icon on system tray) at startup…
Well, not sure what happened but it’s showing now so all is well. Thank you for taking the time to help me.
Hank 