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“OMG! I’ve become my high school biology teacher. I’m starting to answer questions with a question!” LOL, too funny.
To answer your questions, for some reason on my startup menu I only have one file and it’s ashServ.exe I do not have ashmaisv.exe for email but when I installed the program I unchecked email scanning in the custom option after we determined that Avast does not scan my Juno email. I have no idea why the file for the sys tray icons is not there. All I know is that when I put ashServ.exe back on the startup menu, the icons show up in the sys tray, but when I start avast after I have booted my computer, the icons do not appear and i do not know how to access all the info that I usually access through them.
I have now been able to get the ‘disabled’ on the user interface to change to ‘standard’ (after starting the program by clicking the desktop icon when avast was not checked on the startup menu) which should mean that the program is scanning in the background. However, when I start Avast like this, there are no icons in the sys tray (next to the clock–I usually have two avast icons there, which I think can be merged into one). When the icons are there (which they are when Avast starts at boot up on the start up menu) I can click on one of them and it shows a screen that indicates that the program is scanning. But I have no way that I know of to access that screen without putting Avast back on the start up menu adn rebooting.
This is not a great problem, except that there are times when I to not want Avast to start when I start my computer. But I want to be able to start it later and use all the screens and be sure it’s running, etc. without having to add avast to the startup menu and reboot.
Can I just assume that Avast is running if only the user interface is accessible and the resident scanner says ‘standard’ rather than ‘disabled’?
BTW, I already uninstalled and reinstalled avast, and it didn’t help. I run Win 98
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