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This issue has gone quiet on the forum. Has everyone (apart from me) solved the problem? 
Still have this intermittent fault of the taskbar icon not loading and no access to the GUI, perhaps the programme not even working properly otherwise.
Have to say that AVAST has become a handful in the last couple of years.
For the inexperienced who just want a reliable AV I wouldn’t recommend this programme anymore.
Most folks don’t even know what a boot in safe mode is (!) and all this removing remnants with dedicated cleaning tools then re-installing etc etc is one huge faff around. Not good at all.
I appreciate that the guys at AVAST need to stay competitive and come up with ever more ‘clever’ features but personally I think it has gone to far.
Having said that, when it works (!) the new version seems less resource intensive and faster.
Back to basics?
regards