Ali1,

Generally when the icon is not present, the firewall is not active as you know. Since I don't what operating system you have or the version of Sygate, I would recommend that you visit the Sygate Site. There they can address your specific problem with their product and your operating system.

They have quite the extensive forum on troubleshooting and after only a short review of their posts, your problem was listed there. "SPF ceased auto-loading on startup" Here's the link:

http://forums.sygate.com/vb/showthre...ing+at+startup

http://forums.sygate.com/vb/index.php?

cheers