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Tech Tip of the Week: Remove notification bar in AVG 8.5
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With over 200 million downloads on CNET alone, AVG 8.5 is among the most popular free antivirus solutions on the market today. If you're one of the countless users who find AVG's notification area to be naggy (present since version 8.0), then keep reading to disable it once and for all.

The workaround is as simple as renaming a couple of files in AVG's main program directory. Furthermore, in an attempt to save you time, we've written a quick batch file which renames the files and disables the notification area for you.
Continue reading our Tech Tip of the Week.

The workaround is as simple as renaming a couple of files in AVG's main program directory. Furthermore, in an attempt to save you time, we've written a quick batch file which renames the files and disables the notification area for you.
Continue reading our Tech Tip of the Week.
User Comments (28)
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on June 20, 2011 8:49 AM |
Also works on AVG free 2011 !!! I knew this existed as i wrote a bat file quite some time ago to do a similar trick with AVG 2005 but could not remember what I did. This saved me a bit of head work. AWSOME |
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on June 20, 2011 8:51 AM |
OOPS forgot to add Win 7 Ultimate x64 |
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on September 3, 2011 5:31 AM |
Hey this trick also works for AVG 2011 great!, haha i finally get rid of that awful notification! thanks dude you rock! |
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