Avast system tray icon missing after Windows update

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I installed avast 4.8 a few days back. It worked fine, and probably still does. But after a recent Windows update (on Windows 2000 SP4) from Microsoft’s site, the system tray icon no longer appears at start-up. I tried uninstall followed by a fresh install, but things remain unchanged. The SCM shows all 4 avast services (Antivirus/iAVS4 Control Service/Mail Scanner/Web Scanner) as started and the Task Manager shows 5 avast processes (ashMailSv.exe, ashlServ.exe, ashWebSv.exe, aswUpdSv.exe and avast.setup) as running. Is there anything I can do to get the system icon tray back ? It kind of assures that avast is indeed fully active.

Thank you for any help
Manish Jain
invalid.pointer@gmail.com

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Please for security dont put your email. Because many people or bots can email you and make some spam or send you a virus.

Thank you to edit your post to erase your email.

Mr.Agent

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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.

What other security based software do you have that might block new startup entries, e.g. Spybot S&D (TeaTimer), AdAware (AdWatch), SpySweeper, Spyware Doctor (StartUpGuard), PrevX, WinPatrol, ProcessGuard, etc.?