It may sound stupid but when is the ideal time to renew your license key for Avast home edition: just before it expires or after it expires?
When a new license key is entered does it remember the exact date you re-registered or does it set it as the beginning of the current month or from the start of next month?
I believe the new date is taken from the 1st day of the next month.
In either case it is pretty immaterial as it doesn’t make sense to wait to the last day of the existing period. Check about avast and I think that will answer your question if you can recall exactly when you installed it.
My last registration email, you could check yours too, was received on the 1st August 2007 and my expiry date is 01 November 2008, so you get 14 months from the start of the next month from ‘when you the registration email was sent.’ In my case that worked out at almost 15 months.
So if you renew in the last month of your current registration everything will be as it should, being the Home free version you aren’t losing anything, you get 14 months starting from the 1st of the next month.
thankyou for your answer, is there anything else I should know that I havent brought up here and also it may benefit people if this info was stickied somewhere (unless it already is)
ps if for example I was on holiday and it expired would I still be able to reactivate it without any problems?
Will I need a new License Key if my hard drive crashed?
I have just renewed until december 09, in about avast what should be the details under registration key section?
No, use the one you have, if you have written it down or saved it somewhere, or use the link “I’m a registered user, but I lost my registration key”
Provided you have a saved copy of the registration email with your number somewhere then no you wouldn’t.
So now is time to plan for eventualities and back-up files, registration info, etc. if you don’t want to lose it back it up.
I know this is strange but since inputting the new license key the about avast doesn’t quite look the same
what I mean is, shouldnt there be 3 entries under registration key instead of two?
I would imagine that they have removed the Program Expires, Never: or words to that effect as it could be confusing when underneath that there is an Expiration date.
There is only two entries in mine.
yes “program expires” thats what I thought should have been there, it just struck me something was missing thats all.
I had a trial version and reregistered. The avast icon will not show up so I can’t enter my new confirmation code. I tried saving the download and running it but no icon?
Help I am a self professed idiot and ain’t too proud to beg.
The trial version expires in 60 days. Maybe you should start from the scratch and register the Home version again.
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My registration expires on the 1st February 2009.
What would happen if I re-registered before this date?
Am I right that when I need to get a new key for the free home edition that I visit this page below
[b]http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php[/b]
and click on I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one
Then I fill this form in
[b]http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php#register-form[/b]
Then I click on Register.
Is this all I need to do before my registration key runs out as I am a registered user anyway.
Like I say it runs out start of Febuary next year, so I suppose it wont let you register for a new key until nearer the time, is this right?
You can register at any time you want, but if you don’t use the option you mentioned “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one” and you use the same email address as before, then it will send you a copy of your existing key.
So use a different email address and it doesn’t matter what registration option you select 1, 2 or 3 you will get a new different key, valid from that point 14 months from the 1st day if the next month.
Use the “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one” option and regardless of email you will get a new key. It doesn’t matter when your existing key expires as this isn’t even considered for this option. But you don’t even need to go down this path until January 2009 and avast would start to remind you 3 weeks before (I believe).
Have I got this right,
So if I want to use the same email address as before I would therefore have to wait till the key has expired?
But if I want to get a new key just now I would have to use a different email address?
I am confused when you say regardless of email you will get a new key, but then you say use a different email address.
But surely if I take this option and use the same email address I will get the same key again?
Also if I were to use a different email address and get a new key would it work with the same program that I have installed at the moment, or would I need to install again?
When registering for a new key is it necessary to install the program again?
All I have been doing is showing you examples and not giving you instructions on what to do that choice is up to you.
No, it has nothing to do with if you want to use the same email, I’m just telling you what would happen if you did use the same email and didn’t chose the “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one” option you would just get a copy of your current unexpired key.
Again no, if you use the “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one” option avast doesn’t check to see if a) the email address is the same and if you current key is still valid.
I’m not saying use a different email address, just showing you an example that if you did, it wouldn’t matter if you have an existing valid key you would be sent a new one as there is no way to link the new email address to a previous registration were a different email was used.
Ok,
So, if I use the same email address just now and use the “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one” I should therefore receive a different key, and I just insert this into the existing program.
If you answer YES to this then it confuses me a little, because my current key has not yet expired.
I used the option “I’m a registered user and my registration key has expired, I need a new one”, using the same email address, I noticed that the first lot of 19 numbers and letters were the same as before, but the second lot after the hyphen, the 8 letters and numbers were different, so it must be the last 8 characters that change only when you use the same email address.
It worked fine though as the date now shows as 01st December 2009.
Again no, that is simply a new registration number because that is what you requested and has nothing to do with the email address you use.
It doesn’t matter if you the same email address or a different one, you will be sent a new key because that is what you asked for.