Thanks Haiduk, that is exactly the problem I had, I tried what cured your problem, made no difference, BUT you gave me the answer, both my PC's have very high screen resolutions, 1920 by 1200, to make the font larger I use a 200% setting for font, when I changed that to 96(normal setting) I could see the options in the menu box, so each time I use Ad-aware I just need to temporarily change the font to small. Maybe the Ad-aware software writers could fix this.
Cheers Gazzab