I still have no icons in desktop/system/tray after doing a repair.

This is what I had before doing → start/control panel/add-remove programs/Avast! Anti-Virus/change-remove/repair.

Windows Task Mgr showed these processes running:
ashDisp.exe
ashMaiSv.exe
ashServ.exe
aswUpdSv.exe running.

As Admin these Services were runnng:
avast! Antivirus/ started/ automatic
avast! iAVS4 Control Service/ started /automatic
avast! Mail Scanner/ started /manual

My “Startup Manager” program showed:
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
from registry - Machine/Run

I did the repair and find the same conditions as above
unchanged.

I had this same problem with another anti-virus program (AVG v.7)
when I tried upgrading from v.6.

There is something about my XP installation that is stopping these
programs from running normally. I have other programs that put
icons in the tray - sound & graphics cards, PGP and others.
They are all running fine. And AVG v.6 had a tray icon and it worked without problems.

There was an XP update - so called critical - which I installed.
This was last week prior to trying AVG v.7 & Avast 4 Home. I don’t know if that changed anything with the firewall or whatever.

I guess I need to post this to one of the MS XP newgroups.

Thanks for your suggestions and anything else you might think of.

Bavnuser