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A license code may be activated on only one machine at a time. If you
wish to run Investor/RT software on more than one computer at different
times, you must go to the License Activation window and click
De-Activate License to release the license from the machine. Then use
the same License Code to activate on a different computer. You can move
a license code from a Windows XP machine to a Windows Vista or to a
Macintosh OS X machine or vice versa. The license is platform
independent. If you want to share a license between multiple computers
without the manual hassle of de-activating and re-activating each time
you switch between computers/locations, there are two possible
solutions...
The first solution is to order an additional license so
you can have both machine activated all the time. Additional license
codes are $20/mo. The additional code may only be used by the owner
of the master license code. It will have the same features as the master license code.
The second solution requires a few
minutes of your time to setup. On both machines where you run
Investor/RT, do these simple steps and you w’ll never have to shuffle your
license back and forth manually again.
- Go to "Setup:Preferences:Keyboard Shortcuts" and setup a
key, e.g. shift+F5 as a shortcut for “De-Activate License”.
- Go to Setup->Schedules and create a new schedule, call it
“De-activate and Quit”. Add two actions to this schedule, (1) execute
keyboard shortcut Shift+F5, and (2) Quit.
- Assign a shortcut key, F5 to the “De-activate and Quit” schedule.
- Backup your Database.
- Now, test the schedule on both machines. Just Press F5 and watch
as the software deactivates the license, backs up the database and
quits.
Start up Investor/RT again and you’ll notice that it starts up
“De-activated”. If it’s not too much trouble, just click “Activate
License” and off you go again. But if you want to further automate the
reactivation of your license each time you start the program, then
create a file named configure.txt inside your admin folder
where Investor/RT is installed (c:\program files\investrt\admin on
Windows). If this file already exists, just add one line to it,
otherwise create the file with one line having this command:
CheckLicenseAtStartup = true
This command tells Investor/RT to do a license activation at startup.
If the software detects that your license
is currently de-activated on the machine, it will attempt to activate the
license code that you last used on the machine.
With these two simple setups, you can run the software in two
locations with no license shuffle steps needed. When you are ready to
leave one location, instead of doing "File:Quit", you just press
F5 and walk away. When you arrive at the new location, you just startup
Investor/RT and it will activate automatically. Go back and forth all
you want, any time, all you have to remember is F5 instead of Quit. If
this solution doesn’t work for you 100% of the time, e.g. you accidently
leave the program running at the office with the license activated, you
can solve that potential problem too by setting up the schedule at the
office to run on its own every weekday at 7 p.m. for example. If you
forget and leave the office computer running I/RT, you can be assured
that at 7 p.m. the license will be deactivated automatically, so you can
begin using it at home after that time.
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