Missing Avira icon in Windows 10 taskbar
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I recently installed Avira Antivirus free for Windows but now don't have any way to control it. I can see it's running in Task Manager, but there's no Avira icon in the TaskBar/Notification area.
I thought there was one when I installed it a couple of days ago.
Not sure if relevant but it reported a trojan and when I clicked on the request to show the details a process called Luke Filewalker ran for a few seconds but then no further response.
What do I need to do to get the icon back or some other way to access the product?
thanks
KC
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Hello Kai,
You can try a repair installation:
https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000746709-How-do-I-repair-my-Avira-Antivirus-or a new installation:
https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002858514-How-do-I-perform-a-manual-reinstallation-of-my-Avira-Antivirus-product-It is very important to review the Trojan's message!
If you have further questions, please contact us again.
Many greetings and a nice Sunday
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Thanks, Pascha45, I'm delighted to report that a repair installation fixed my problem!
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Hello Kai,
Great, we're glad. Thank you very much for your reply and enjoy the Avira software.
If anything is unclear, please let us know, we will be happy to help you.
Kind regards and a nice Sunday
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Hello
I also have this problem (missing Avira icon) in the taskbar, on both my laptop and my desktop pc.
It startet a few days/week ago, and I think maybe it have something to do with latest Windows updates. On my desktop pc, the Avira icon dissapeared after latest Windows update. Tried to do a repair install of Avira antivirus. Then everything looked ok. But next time I startet my desktop pc, the Avira icon was missing again in the taskbar.
I know Avira antivirus is running when checking the meny "Safety and maintenance". But if the Avira icon is missing in the taskbar I have check the meny for "Safety and maintenance" every time I start my computers to be sure.
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Hello,
I've excatly the same issue and found, that "Avira.SystemSpeedup.Maintenance.exe" is crashing right after the start-up:Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: Avira.SystemSpeedup.Maintenance.exe, Version: 6.4.1.10871, Zeitstempel: 0x5e32ea26
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: clr.dll, Version: 4.8.4150.0, Zeitstempel: 0x5e176ddd
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000409
Fehleroffset: 0x0060ca48
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x3058
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01d5effbfae241ff
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: C:\Program Files (x86)\Avira\System Speedup\Avira.SystemSpeedup.Maintenance.exe
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Berichtskennung: 6eac0358-27ba-42aa-a81a-bdcc32cf6460
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:This happened after the Update of Avira Free and the last Microsoft updates last Friday.
Please fix this. It does not leave a good impression for a professional Antivirus Company.0 -
Avira pro no longer appears on the startup bar, reinstalling after a few days the same problem. Windows 10 home licensed, updated to date.
Problem reported 3 days ago and Jørn Østeng.
What to do, exchange the antivirus with another company? eset nod, norton, kaspersky0 -
Same here. I think problem is not in antivirus. Avira Launcher does not start for unknown reason. Starting Avira.Systray.exe helps but after next reboot it does not work again. Reinstalling Launcher also helps but after 1-5 reboots icon disappears again.
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And what confidence I have that I defend myself from threats, when he defects he deals with deletions. I'll replace it with everything. Avira officials what guard?
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I have the same issue, but I have a workaroud : Stop and start avira service host.
As administrator in cmd :
C:\windows\system32\net.exe stop "Avira Service Host"
timeout /T 2
C:\windows\system32\net.exe start "Avira Service Host"2 -
Two days after the announcement, it appeared again on the start and on the bar, solved without doing any action. I mention that I have a 5 PC license, only one had this anomaly.
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It looks like the problem with missing Avira icon in the taskbar is solved, with the latest update from Windows, (KB4551762).
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After more than one month still the same situation.
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Same issue here, even after the latest windows 10 home update. The workaround of Stephan Nicolay works well, but needs to be repeated each time. Please fix this bug.
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Hello everyone:
I have the same issue with Avira antivirus, but I found a video in YouTube that's help me after applying some changes.
You can try one or all mentioned advises from following video if you still have this issue:
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Amer this fix did not work. Not sure what is going on with pro. I'm still not showing my icon even after stopping and starting service host. Avira needs to fix this. You pay for pro and expect it to work properly and it just simply isn't. I have no icon in my system tray at all. And have yet to find a fix for this. Are you doing anything about his avira?
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2 months icon appears after each reboot. Reinstalling Avira Launcher helps me, but I did it 5 or 6 times,
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Months have passed, and it's August 2020. This problem still exist in my Avira Prime.
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