First of all, Welcome to forums Mikell !

What splash screen are you talking about ? Splash screen when you start avast! antivirus by right-clicking on blue ball in your system tray ?

Make new shortcut on your desktop and point it to ashSimpl.exe file inside the directory where you installed avast! (default is: C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashSimpl.exe). Try starting avast! by clicking on that icon twice… see what happens…

That file will start avast! antivirus without splash screen. Try that and let us know what’s happening…

If that doesn’t help, you may have to reinstall avast! antivirus, 'cause it looks to me that installation is corrupt… or… even worst, you have some virus inside your PC which won’t let your antivirus start without problems. Go to Trend Micro’s Housecall and perform online scan.

Link:

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp