DavidR
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You have to wait for the Maintenance > Update section to change to allow for the manual input of the key you were sent. I think that happens at 28 days, so wait a couple of days.
The longer you hold on to avast 7 the less you are likely to get in the way of support as people quickly lose familiarity with older versions.
I have no idea why you don’t want to go to avast 8.0 ?
That was a very stable version at the time that avast 2014 (9.0.x) was released. The problem being you can’t get that build from avast, you would have to get it from somewhere like filehippo and download the last version of 8.0 from its mirror site.