System Tray Icon

The test starts almost silently. But it adds a second AVG icon to the system tray instead of changing the first icon.

The tooltip for the second icon says “test”.

First Icon

• Launch AVG Free Control Center
• Quit AVG Free Control Center
• Launch AVG Test Center
• -
• AVG Free - Online Services
• Check for Updates

Observations

• These captions are really long.
• Says “test”, not “scan”.
• Switches between AVG Free foo and AVG foo.
• Double-click action is bold.
• 2 of these 5 items have an access key defined and underlined.

Second Icon

• Show Scanning Progress
• -
• Pause Scanning/Resume Scanning
• Cancel Scanning

Observations

• Double-click action is not bold.
• Access keys are undefined or at least not underlined.
• Why have a separator in a group of 3 related items?
• “Scanning” could just be “Scan”.
• “Show Scanning Progress” could just be “Show Progress”.
• What is the scan looking for? Viruses? Make this clearer.

Combined Context Menu Idea

Using a single icon in the system tray, when a scan isn’t running:

• Open AVG
• Online Help
• Exit

During a scan it must grow:

• Open AVG
• Online Help
• -
• Pause Virus Scan/Resume Scan
• Cancel Virus Scan
• -
• Exit

Open AVG goes to the scan progress view while a scan is running.

Pause Scanning

Pauses the scan, then shows the Complete Test window. “Test” or “scan”?

Focus is on the Continue button but Resume would match the context menu.

But why was this window displayed? I didn’t click Show Scanning Progress. I just wanted to pause.

Tidied Complete Test

Manually sizing the columns made everything fit. This should be automatic.