I can live without this Widget on my desktop - I get the same functionality from the Tray icon.
If I close the widget, it returns at the next boot. How do I make it go away, without going into the OS and shutting off the Win7 Gadget Platform? I have other gadgets I want to keep. I can’t find any configuration options in avast6 for this.
Thanks.
Avast 6.0.1000
Windows 7 64bit SP1
Go to add remove programms and double click on avast then click change and when you get the popup untick the gadget, ok and reboot.
SOLVED !!
Thanks the quick reply.
no need to do that, go to the gadget panel and uninstall it from there.
True, that would have been easyer, that one slipped my mind.
Same dog different leg action 
I uninstalled it from the gadget panel and it did get rid of it…until I rebooted. Funny thing is the Avast gadget is back on the desktop but it’s not in the gadget control panel now.
That rather depends on if it is in the gadget panel, on mine it doesn’t appear there is is in the shared gadgets folder. So can’t be uninstalled through the gadgets gallery. Don’t ask why avast installed it there I don’t know.
@ street_lethal
You will find an entry for it in the shared gadgets folder. So you are left with the add remove programs (uninstall a Program) Change and uncheck the avast gadget option.
That’s what I wound up doing after I updated to the official v6 release before. I went to add/remove programs clicked on change, unchecked the gadget, clicked next. It said the program was successfully changed and then I got a pop-up from Win 7 saying the program may have not be installed correctly. I selected the “the program installed correctly” box. I’ve had enough of installing/reinstalling programs for the day.
Doesn’t work that way. Gadget still comes up after even though it uninstalls itself from the gadget pane.
Same here with a clean install of Avast. Get the Program Compatibility Assistant popup after uninstalling it through Programs and Features - Change.
It uninstalls that way though, just something isn’t right there.
What is this Gadget thing? Is this like in 5.1 with the Avast Shortcut icon on the Desktop?
Jack
Why does avast have to keep trying to readd the gadget to the desktop…
This is silly behaviour, it should install the gadget and add it to the desktop via the standard windows facilities (If there are any) only on the first run or during the install and just leave it like that if the user removes it from the desktop or uninstalls it from the gadget gallery it should just stay like that.
And it should be reintalled on a repair/change if you have the gadget selected in the installer and uninstalled from the gallery in case it was accidently removed, and also not added to the desktop automaticlly if it’s already installed in the gallery as the user obviously removed the gadget from the desktop himself.
Did you do a clean install or update from the avastUI ?
If the latter then it is probably in the shared gadgets folder, which means it will be restored on the next boot.
Control panel → Programs and Features → avast! → Change → uncheck the box “avast! gadget” reboot, it shouldn’t come back.
I’m having the opposite problem, i can’t get my gadget to start up
I’ve tried everything, installing re installing, updating, nothing seems to work.
Dose it make any difference that i was part of the beta and it worked then?!
This is all i get
system profile by Speccy at
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/gDwKCocywS78CKt1QG5hFIy
Just updated from version 4 ( I know I know) to version 6 - so far I like it
Got rid of the gadget using the control panel and it hasn’t come back after a restart.
points down
That’s not the computer I’m using… I think one more post and I can change it 
Perfect, thanks.
You’re welcome.
This works for me. Thanks.
Brilliant, an unwanted gadget removed. Many thanks.
In the recent beta, it should be possible to use the gadget panel to remove it (at least I think so).