Simple User Interface on startup

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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As of late, the Avast! Simple User Interface as begun popping up after Avast! first loads when I start up Window$ XP.

I do not have Avast! set to run a boot scan and it didn’t behave this way before.

Am I missing a setting or preference somewhere? Avast! used to load minimized to the taskbar.

Please advise.

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That is not a boot scan that you are seeing, check your startup entries in msconfig, startup tab (windows start, Run, type msconfig and click OK, startup tab). The only avast entry should be, ashDisp.exe, for the avast icon in the system tray.

There is no preference for enabling what you are seeing, so equally there is no preference/setting to disable it. To see what you are seeing you have to have manually set it up. Has anyone been tweaking either msconfig or the startup folder ?

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Thanks DavidR,

You pointed me in the right direction

I did find 3 entries in my startup : ashDisp.exe
ashWebSv.exe
ashSimpl.exe

I removed ashSimpl.exe and it restarted without showing the interface.

I’m the only one that uses this computer so I’m not sure how ashSimpl.exe was added to the startup.

Perhaps I did it one late night half asleep! ???

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Well you shouldn’t need ashWebSv.exe as a start-up item either as you are using XP and the only startup should be ashDisp.exe. How did these extra startup entries occur ?

With XP and avast, if you have the Web Shield provider enabled then there should be an XP Services entry for it, set to Manual so after boot the web shield provider should be started it doesn’t require a conventional startup entry.

Welcome to the forums.

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I’m not sure how ashWebSv.exe became listed in the start up. I removed it and will watch for it in the future.

Thanks for the info and welcome.

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Glad I could help.