Subject pretty much says it all.
I hate the UI opening centre screen - not only for avast - I move it to the bottom right of my screen out of the way. Whilst my system is on, fine if I open it again it remains in the location I placed it. Yet if I open it after a reboot back in the centre of the *&%^dy screen.
I even use the old Ctrl+X(close window) hack, which ordinarily forces the window location to remain where placed, this doesn’t seem to work either.
Hi Dave, can’t confirm it, it works here.
There is a entry in the registry that keeps the location of a window.
Removing/resetting that entry should solve it.
On rare occasions windows doesn’t reset by itself although it should.
Did it again this morning - previous versions no problem staying where I put it even after a reboot - so something has changed in this version and I hate this more than any popup ad.
As I said above no problem with earlier avast UI versions staying where I placed it.
This could work :
Right-click on the window caption on the taskbar, or select it and use Alt+Space.
If the Restore option is available, select it to pop the window out of minimized or maximized state.
Choose the Move option.
Hit an arrow key.
Move the mouse.
@David,
I can confirm your problem.
Moved the UI to lower right and after a restart it again opened in the center of the screen.
I can’t see how this is implicated I don’t have a problem with the UI size or being able to move it. Also the avastUI doesn’t have a maximize state - it is very restricted - it can’t be resized. It can be moved, but I can already do that.
The pain in the backside is it won’t retain its location after a restart.
Thanks for the confirmation - it isn’t just in my imagination then ;D
Here’s a small video documenting the problem:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vSic0iJgyecFRBNmxrMWlsc00/view?usp=sharing
I’m just surprised more are reporting this - but then not everyone spends much time in the avastUI.
Got a hiccup trying to connect to your drive.google link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vSic0iJgyecFRBNmxrMWlsc00/view?usp=sharing
That should work now. 
I got the connection this time, displaying the sunset image and play button - clicking that and it starts loading - but it never seems to get there. At the top of my browser page is the Google I can click the Information (i) icon and all appears in order and I can also see it recognises my Google account. But still no start.
I have used the Download option and I will see if this is an mp4 issue on my system not being able to play it, but I have Windows Media Player (WMP) and that should cater for mp4 files.
Well that appears to be the problem there was no linkage for .mp4 so I pointed it at WMP only for WMP not supporting .mp4 files. Weird, but this is WMP 11, the latest for XP SP3.
It’s on YouTube via link only:
https://youtu.be/aBUdpusIQBc
Yes, got that one thanks.
I’ve also forwarded the link to Avast. Hopefully it will give them some help in fixing the problem.
Thanks, hopefully it will jog someone into action.
Well, for me it stays where I put it (lower left), even after several reboots.