Activating Your License - Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

Chapter 5

Activating your license

Activating your license without an Internet connection
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When you install DiskSafe Express and restart your computer, you are prompted to
license the product. If your computer has an Internet connection, the license is
activated automatically. However, if your Internet connection was temporarily down
or if your computer has no Internet connection, your license was not activated. You
must activate your license within 30 days of installing DiskSafe Express; otherwise,
you will not be able to perform backups or recovery.
If your Internet connection was temporarily down, your license will be activated
automatically the next time you run DiskSafe Express with a restored Internet
connection.
However, if your computer has no Internet connection, you must perform offline
activation (as described in the next section).
If your computer had no network interface card (NIC) when you installed DiskSafe
Express, or your NIC was disabled, and you subsequently add or enable a NIC, you
must add the license again (as described in
order to activate it.
Note: Activation is tied to your computer's hardware. Once you have activated a
particular license, if your computer hardware changes, or if you subsequently
install DiskSafe Express on a different computer using the same key code, an
error message displays. Contact Technical Support for further assistance.
If your license wasn't activated because your computer has no Internet connection,
you must obtain an activation code using another computer that does have both an
Internet connection and e-mail.
To activate your license without an Internet connection:
1. From the Action menu, click License --> Offline Activation.
The Offline Activation dialog box displays.
2. Click Export License Data.
3. On the Save As dialog box, select one of the following locations and then click
Save:
A shared folder accessible to both your computer and a computer that has
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A USB disk
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