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Avast antivirus destroys customized Start Menu orb unless . . .
I recently got fed up with AVG Free & decided to try Avast. The first time I rebooted my system after installing Avast, it reverted my Start Menu orb to the original system default. It took me a few tries before I got the problem squared away. First, you have to customize the Avast Behavior Shield by adding the Orb Changer program to the exclusion list. That lets you replace your customized orb. But it doesn't help you on the next reboot. However, Avast actually tells you that it doesn't like C:\Windows\expstart.exe during the reboot. So you need to also add that to the exclusions in the Behavior Shield customizations.
Before posting this I did try to search for threads whose titles included "Avast" and "orb." Problem is the search engine here says "orb" is too common or too long or too short as a search criterion & removes the word from the search keys. Not helpful. By the same token, that means that nobody is going to be able to find this post since "orb" is in the title. Or maybe not. If it ever happens that you search on something & get this post in your results, please post here how you searched. I'm curious about searches on "orb." Seems to me it's a bit extreme to discard "orb" as a search criterion when it's a legitimate jargon term within the operating system & something somebody might want to search on.