Me again. I tried this, didn't work for me. I had to reboot about 4 times after using the aswclear thing, seemed to have messed up something, and couldn't get my desktop to load completely after 3 tries. I had to boot back into safe mode to get avast to load completely, as it hung up when rebooting. Then I loaded the free version of the Antivirus instead of the Internet Security I had paid for, because I was nervous that it wouldn't work when I saw it was version 8 again, instead of 7, which I had hoped for.
Still will not load the license... Sigh. 8 days until expiry. I did receive an email from Avast for additional support, will wait to hear back now.