Has anyone figured out how to disable the Link Scanner in AVG 8 WITHOUT AVG's system 
tray icon indicating there is a problem? Now THAT is an annoyance!

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AVG_forums

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Thanks, but I do not find an answer to my question there.







On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:14 am, MartinM wrote:

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Then post your specific question there.

You are more likely to get answers about AVG on an AVG forum than on this XP forum 
- it may feel like it sometimes but this is not really an IT General Knowledge Centre !

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I install AVG 8 day in and day out on customers PCs.. I've never had a problem with 
link scanner.. It is an option to NOT install it, when the software is installed. 
 Its called the "AVG Toolbar"....  I never install it.  So just uninstall the AVG 
Toolbar.  Or reinstall the software, and uncheck the appropriate option.

I'm assuming that is what turns it off.. The only other option I don't check is the 
one that says I want to report sites to Grisoft.  I had one customer complain about 
the link scanner when I first started to install AVG 8.0, and he was the only one 
that I ever chose to install the AVG Toolbar on.  So, thats gotta be it.. :)

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Directing me to AVG Forums was the correct answer.
FAQ 1338 is the secret. I did exactly what it said, and voila, no more Link Scanner 
at all. It does not appear in the AVG User Interface and I have a pretty multi-colored 
system tray icon again, with no exclamation point!








On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 6:30 am, appleoddity wrote:

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>I install AVG 8 day in and day out on customers PCs.. I've never had a problem with 

>link scanner.. It is an option to NOT install it, when the software is installed. 

> Its called the "AVG Toolbar"....  I never install it.  So just uninstall the AVG 

>Toolbar.  Or reinstall the software, and uncheck the appropriate option.

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>I'm assuming that is what turns it off.. The only other option I don't check is 
the 

>one that says I want to report sites to Grisoft.  I had one customer complain about 

>the link scanner when I first started to install AVG 8.0, and he was the only one 

>that I ever chose to install the AVG Toolbar on.  So, thats gotta be it.. :)

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Oh, and I should have said THANK YOU to MartinM. Thanks a lot.







On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:14 am, MartinM wrote:

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No need, but thanks :-)

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Simple actually...just disable the startup of avgtray.exe in msconfig. Everything will still run fine. You can still launch the user interface to configure settings, and if you want to launch the tray icon for some reason you can do it from the AVG menu in All Programs then right click on the icon and exit when you're done.


On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:08 am, Tom wrote:
>Has anyone figured out how to disable the Link Scanner in AVG 8 WITHOUT AVG's system
>tray icon indicating there is a problem? Now THAT is an annoyance!

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I don't know if you've figured this out yet, but by far the easiest way is to disable the add-on in the browser. AVG doesn't seem to realize that you've done that, so it doesn't complain about it. In IE it's tools - internet options - programs - manage add-ons - and then disable the AVG one.


On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:08 am, Tom wrote:
>Has anyone figured out how to disable the Link Scanner in AVG 8 WITHOUT AVG's system
>tray icon indicating there is a problem? Now THAT is an annoyance!

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Thanks, but as stated in an earlier post, I found a very satisfactory solution: "Directing me to AVG Forums was the correct answer. FAQ 1338 is the secret. I did exactly what it said, and voila, no more Link Scanner at all. It does not appear in the AVG User Interface and I have a pretty multi-colored system tray icon again, with no exclamation point!"


On Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 2:56 am, Stephen Garstin wrote:
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> I don't know if you've figured this out yet, but by far the easiest way is to
>disable the add-on in the browser. AVG doesn't seem to realize that you've done
>that, so it doesn't complain about it. In IE it's tools - internet options - programs
>- manage add-ons - and then disable the AVG one.
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