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9.6. System Tray Icon
System Tray Icon (on your Windows taskbar) indicates the current status of your
AVG 8.5 Anti-Virus plus Firewall. It is visible at all times on your system tray, no
matter whether your AVG main window is opened or closed.
If in full color
, the System Tray Icon indicates that all AVG components are
active and fully functional. Also, AVG system tray icon can be displayed in full color if
AVG is in error state but you are fully aware of this situation and you have
deliberately decided to
Ignore the component state
.
A gray icon coloring with an exclamation mark
indicates a problem (inactive
component, error status, etc.). Double-click the System Tray Icon to open the main
window and edit a component.
The system tray icon further informs on current AVG activities and possible status
changes in the program (e.g. automatic launch of a scheduled scan or update,
Firewall profile switch, a component's status change, error status occurrence, ...) via
a pop-up window opened from the AVG system tray icon:
The System Tray Icon can also be used as a quick link to access the AVG main
window at any time - double click on the icon. By right-click on the System Tray
Icon you open a brief context menu with the following options:
Open AVG User Interface - click to open the
AVG User Interface
Update - launches an immediate
update
Exit - click to close AVG (You only close the user interface, AVG continues to
run in the background and your computer is still fully protected!)