Hi,
This is a minor issue… 
…the “skin” for the latest version of avast! looks like a wafer biscuit. No offence to whoever created it… :-\
I had wondered that since no one mentioned it, that I can see, if the format is just wacky on my computer?
I am looking now for a new one to download.
Cheers.
chameleon.
http://www.avast.com/eng/skins.html
Can you post a screenshot of what your skin looks like?
I found that the skin only looks weird when I log into avast! as an adminstrator from a regular account (XP). I always scan as admin and I didn’t have this issue with previous versions of avast!
I have not posted a screenshot before so I hope this turns out okay.
P.S: And don’t know how to crop images either, but there is the wafer biscuit for you to see!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y158/chameleonstar/untitled.jpg
Chameleon, this skin is for ‘weak’ monitors and video cards (old ones).
Why don’t you try a superior skin and enable transparency effects?
From the menu of the Simple User Interface, you can click on Select Skin, here you will see the name of the skin in use and have the link to get more skins.
Hello Technical and David.
Wow! That was swift!
Yes, I will change to another skin, however if I scan as a regular user the skin shows normally, as the blue default one.
I thought it may be a buggy thing.
I’ll let you know if the issue persists.
okay. Issue seems solved now.
Im trying the “spiderman” skin at present.
And that pirate one looks fairly wild too. 
Thanx.
Wow… you’ve gone from the simplest one to a very complex one…
By the way, I can’t see your avatar, just a box with a red x in it :-\
Most imaging software has a Crop Tool, it is usually a case of selecting the area you want to keep, select edit and crop selection.
If you don’t have any image editing software there are a number of freeware programs out there. The IrfanView software is very basic and I mostly use it to convert (import and export) different file formats, but it will do the job, see image.
Technical: I think that’s because SZC had the picture stored on his space and maybe something happened that end. I just restored it ( I finally worked out how to use photobucket → :-[ ) what can I say! I am a text-based person!
SZC, if you see this, did you want to send me a “chameleon” with your sig. at the bottom, as the other one had?
David: Thanks for the tips. I don’t usually work with images. For now my humble little desktop’s “forks and knives” are there for the world to see. :o
Hello Chameleon … long time since I spoke to you my friend, where were you lately ?
Regarding that “wafer biscuit” skin, it’s name is Low Res skin and it’s created by Alwil guys, Martin I think. As it’s name says, it’s low res and it’s recommended for low-resource systems. Try other skins, there is a plenty of all kind of skins in avast! download section.
As far as your avatar goes, I think it’s fine this way too… you don’t have to have my signature unless you speciafically want one. In case you still want the old one, just visit my forum’s avatar galery here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8340.0
Just scroll down and you’ll hit your old avatar… hope this helps !
Cheers !
Thanx szc. I am still around. Just busy.
I have now downloaded loads of skins and am enjoying the fun of the random option.