How to fix missing Avast icon from system tray

Posted by neosix

This is a common problem with Avast Free Antivirus. Honestly I don't know the reason for this behavior, but the easiest solution is to repair Avast installation through Add/Remove program.

  1. Open Control Panel
  2. Click on Add or Remove Programs
  3. Locate Avast and select repair

If this doesn't help, maybe you can try to reinstall Avast.

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3 comments:

Unknown | June 11, 2015 at 12:38 PM  

reinstall didn't help me... icon is not there :(

Ears14U | October 10, 2017 at 2:16 PM  

Easier approach for me. Running Windows 7 64bit. You should have a shortcut on your desktop of the Avast. Double click the shortcut to bring up the Main program. Then go through this dialogue. Very bottom left look for settings. Click settings and now you're in General. Look right and check the box saying "Show Avast tray icon". You should immediately see it enabled on your taskbar. I've noticed this occurs when Avast wants you to update their program and not really the virus definitions.

Unknown | November 17, 2017 at 4:04 AM  

I had the same problem and I chose to "Repair" via the Control Panel. It worked like a charm.

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