Invalid Licence

[Glenn]

Hi,

I have two removable hard drives. One of which I backup to.

A week or so ago I updated my operating system on my backup drive, added Tradesim and now using this as my main drive.

Running Tradesim came up with an invalid licence. I applied for new licence and it worked fine.

A few days ago I installed a new network card and today (haven't run Tradesim since licence update) Tradesim comes up with "invalid licence" again.

Don't know if it's the new network card ...what else could cause it?

Will this method of licencing continue?

Glenn

[David Samborsky]

If there is a change of hardware such as a network card etc then it appears to the software that you are trying to use it on another computer in which case you will be issued an invalid license. You will need to reregister it for any new hardware additions and updates as well as OS updates.

Will this method of licencing continue?

No version 4 of TradeSim will have an improved licensing system which will hopefully automatically register from the net. Also you will beable to transfer your license from one PC to another using a floppy.

[Glenn]

Thanks David,

One other question.

As I mentioned, I have two removable hard drives and bays. If I swap a hard drive from one bay to the other do you know if this would also be a change of hardware?

Glenn

[NicC]

Hi David,

Just a question about the new license method to transfer via a "floppy".

Does this mean any removable media device? ie. memory sticks, USB etc. as many PC's are now issued without floppy drives.

regards
Nic

[sectorbets]

Hi David--

I'd like to echo Nic's concrens. My new laptop only has a CD drive--no floppy, no memory stick, so I think it will become harder and harder to find new systems with floppy drives.

Best wishes,
Rick

[David Samborsky]

As I mentioned, I have two removable hard drives and bays. If I swap a hard drive from one bay to the other do you know if this would also be a change of hardware?

Yes it would probably register as a hardware change if you moved one hard drive from one computer to another so you will need to have two different license files and rename them accordingly.

Just a question about the new license method to transfer via a "floppy".

Does this mean any removable media device? ie. memory sticks, USB etc. as many PC's are now issued without floppy drives.

Yes I will look into that.

[Glenn]

Yes it would probably register as a hardware change if you moved one hard drive from one computer to another so you will need to have two different license files and rename them accordingly.

David,

Just to be clear, I meant on the same computer ie: having 2 removeable hard drives and swapping from one bay to the other (on the same computer), I think can also be a problem.

Cheers, Glenn

[David Samborsky]

Are you saying each drive is bootable and by swapping drives you determine one which one boots up whilst the other is still in the system?

[gardoggie]

David,

Please look at how Neroshell Trader from Ward Systems Group works with licenses. They got rid of dongles, etc., and went to a system that works somewhat similar to Microsoft Office products. You can install Neuroshell Trader on as many different computers as you want to, but you can activate via the internet on only one machine at a time. When you start up the program, it brings up a box with your serial number and asks if you want to activate via the internet. If you click OK, it goes to the Ward Systems server and activates. You can leave it activated and exit and restart as many times if you want without haveing to reactivate. If you want to run on another machine, you have to deactivate first on the machine it is activated on before being able to activate on the new machine.

I always deactivate when I close the program, so I don't forget and try to activate on another machine - it won't let you activate on the other machine until the first is deactivated. As long as you remember to deactivate, you can always activate on any other machine, work, home, laptop, etc.

My only concern is if Ward's server is down and you can't access them to activate, you are screwed because you don't have it activated on any computer if all are deactivated. But, I can say this hasn't happened yet to me, nor have I seen it show up in their forums as a problem.

This is a great solution because you have no dongles, don't requre a floppy like you are proposing, etc.

Thanks,

John Murray

[David Samborsky]

We are currently looking at license activation over the Internet.

It may not run exactly as you have described but instead will allow you to simultaneously license multiple copies.

[gawdib]

cleaning out my computer, I had to remove program last week,, but now cannot get the old license back. No response in 4-5 days.