If I could make a friendly suggestion though. There’s no reason why one should have to re-activate licences after updating. The software IMO should be more intuitive.
Perhaps in future updates, we could ensure that settings and licences are as they were left before the update?
Thanks for taking the time to report back on how you resolved it.
I would agree that there should be a seamless integration of licenses you already have when a program update happens. Of course if this was a clean reinstall that may be somewhat different, as your my.avast.com account may still have the license assigned to the old program version.