the only avast i've had on this windows 7x64 home premium computer was v7 security suite.
it auto-updated to 8 when 8 was released.
when the subscription ran out, the only thing working was the firewall.
the anti-virus, shields and sandbox were no longer functional.
i had my original download of free anti-virus that i had on my xp-sp3 computer saved on flash drive.
i installed that on the windows 7 figuring it would upload to v8 faster.
i didnt uninstall the security suite since it was only a firewall.
i thought both would run separately.
the v7 free anti-virus wrote over the remaining security suite and eliminated that program.
the v7free anti-virus didnt update so i then used the aswclear to uninstall everything and downloaded the v8 free anti-virus and installed it and have been having problems since.
when i use aswclear it doesnt show v8 of anything. it goes up to v7.
it goes from v4 home/pro, to avast to v7, to avast business protection.
and none of these list the avast folder as being in 'c:program files x86' just in 'c:program files'.
also it wasnt removing avast sandbox folder until i specifically chose it.
i've removed my zone alarm firewall and will just use windows firewall while i redownload everything and give it another try.
is there another newer version of the aswclear uninstaller somewhere?
i used the one on
http://www.avast.com/en-us/uninstall-utility.