- #AVAST FREE EDITON HOW TO#
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The original purpose here was to get some authoritive information (from avast maybe?) as to whether (A) "older versions" of avast Free will actually "keep working", as avast has promised they would: (and, if so, how does one go about doing that), or whether (B) avast has actually pulled the plug on the ability of users of those "older versions" to obtain another 1-year license key-which is necessary in order to keep those "older versions" "working".
#AVAST FREE EDITON SOFTWARE#
Having been managing software for 25+ years, I operate under the basic principle "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." Just as I suspected might happen from your post, this topic has now been hijacked from its original purpose and turned into a debate over the merits (or lack thereof) of upgrading every time avast comes out with its newest version by a bunch of uber-users who think that they know best for everybody else, rather than giving others the benefit of the doubt that maybe we understand our machines and setup better than they do and are sufficiently intelligent to be able to make choices for ourselves. Is there anybody out there who actually knows what's going on here who can tell the rest of us? The only way-that I can see-for users of versions earlier than version 17 to keep their version of avast Free "working" following the expiration of their pre-version 17 avast Free license is to un-install it, run avastclear.exe, and re-install it every 30 days.
AND that, for versions earlier than version 17, avast has deliberately disconnected those users ability to obtain another 1-year license. AND that avast's new licensing system does not apply to versions earlier than version 17. It may be that what avast means when it says "older versions" they mean (B) version 17.x and later, which become "older versions" when the next year's version comes out. versions that came out in years prior to 2017). As a native English-speaker, to me, "older versions" means (A) versions 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 (i.e. I do admit that there may be something lost in the translation from Czech to English. It DID NOT "automagically register itself 10 days after expiration". When my previous 1-year license expired, my avast Free instantly shut down the operation of all of its active-protection resident shields and prevented me from updating the virus definitions, rendering my avast Free essentially useless. At, avast promises that "older versions will keep working even after they've "expired"." So, I want to keep using my "older version" 9 (2014). What sadiquidey and I want to do is to continue using our "older version" of avast Free and NOT "upgrade to the latest version".
#AVAST FREE EDITON UPGRADE#
Your final suggestion was to upgrade to the latest version. The suggestion given there by MartinZ was "The program will automagically register itself 10 days after expiration even when you are offline" DID NOT WORK for that user.
#AVAST FREE EDITON INSTALL#
That topic relates to someone who is having trouble with his install of (apparently) version 17. When avast promises that the "older versions" will "keep working", does that mean only if one goes through an un-install/re-install every 30 days? And then, it only "keeps working" for another 30 days.
#AVAST FREE EDITON HOW TO#
The only way I've been able figure out how to do it so far is to un-install avast Free, run avastclear.exe, re-install avast Free ver. Is there anybody who is able to explain the steps one needs to take to get their "older version" Avast Free to "keep working" after their previous 1-year license has expired (or point us in the direction of that answer)? (Which appears to be what sadiquidey is describing.) Same thing has happened at least a hundred times. And absolutely nothing happens thereafter.
" which sits there for 10-15 seconds and then disappears. When I get to step 3, "Click Select in the Avast Free Antivirus column", and click "Select", I get a small pop-up saying "Loading. Your link's target instructions DO NOT WORK for older versions (in my case, version 9 / 2014, on Windows 7 SP1). What sadiquidey and I need are the instructions that explain how to "keep working" an "older version" of avast Free. The link you gave is to the instructions for avast Free 17.x.
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