This is obsolete now and pre 0.9z-7.
You must have one PC at least that is connected to the Internet.
This PC, or just one of the others if you have more, will arrange for the Activation Code (
the PayPal button in the UnDemo section in 0.9a or higher).
On this PC the license will be stored.
Edit (June 2008) : You may just as well assume that all of the below does not work. It doesn't work for many people anyway. Therefore it is best if you connect the audio PC to the Internet temporarily.
Since the license is for your household it would have been convenient if the below would have worked. The current solution is to send me an email (or PM via this forum) so I can get you another license for your household when needed.
When you want to play your Audio from other PCs, on these other PCs - in the field for "Activation Code" (UnDemo section) you enter the path to the PC where the license is stored. This *needs*
- A LAN connection to this other PC;
- A share on the other PC to the drive where XXHighEnd is "installed" (better : has been put).
On the PC(s) you want to play the Audio, the path must be entered as follows :
\\ComputerName\ShareName\FolderName\
So let's say that the PC where the license is stored is called "MyPC01" and that XXHighEnd is installed in the folder "XXCurrentVersion" on drive C:.
Also, let's assume that you created a Share for drive C:, and that it is called "DRIVE_C_FromMyPC01". On the PC you want to play Audio, the path now looks like :
\\MyPC01\DRIVE_C_FromMyPC01\XXCurrentVersion\
When there is no LAN connection from the Audio PC to the PC where you obtained the Activation Code, the Audio PC will play in Demo Mode again ...
Below text updated June 28, 2007 :From off 0.9b the facility of "copying" the Activation Code to another PC is added.
Edit : For this to work, ALL PCs must be upgraded to at least 0.9b first !
When two PC's are LAN connected, and PC-A received the Activation Code over the Internet, PC-B could refer to "License Holder" PC-A as per version 0.9a (described above).
As off now, PC-B can generate its own Activation Code, based upon the Activation Code from PC-A.
Edit November 3, 2007 : As it appears now because of (most probably) a Vista bug, when you have a dual boot, one boot could have a Workgroup (or Domain) Name "ABC" while the other boot has a Name "DEF" ... and internally the other one is used for connecting to the LAN opposed to what you see. Now, XXHighEnd also sees the "wrong" one because the Operating System presents it wrongly, and therefore the connection cannot be made properly.
Solution : take care that all boots have the same Workgroup/Domain Name ! (no matter it did not bother you in normal life).
As before, on PC-B enter the reference path to PC-A (the original License Holder) and press Activate;
After all went OK, an obtained Activation Code will be shown in the field for Activation Code;
If you now press Activate
again, a new Activation Code will be registered for PC-B.
The latter implies that you now can disconnect PC-B from the LAN and run XXHighEnd on it without the Demo running time.
This procedure implies that there are two ways of letting a second (etc.) PC in your household run XXHighEnd : the means of the reference path and the means of generating a new Activation Code;
Currently it is not sure what advantages both means might have for future options. Choosing for the one always allows for choosing for the other again, later.
There were two objectives for creating the means of "copying" the Activation Code :
1. You Activated one PC, but really wanted another, and it can't be LAN connected to the first;
2. You foresee that the PC holding the License has to be rebuilt etc.
The second case would be the same as anticipating on a computer crash which may happen sometime, so you should always "backup" your Activation Code by this means. Backup sounds heavy, but in this case it means :
Go to another LAN connected PC, install (ehh, copy-paste) XX, start XX, go to the UnDemo section and enther the path to the shared disk of the PC to "backup", press Activate Twice. Done.
Now keep this PC available when something goes wrong with the original. If so, you can do exactly the same as just described.
Please note that future upgrades can require the originally obtained Activation Code (which you might not even have running somewhere anymore), no matter that the newly generated Activation Codes are derived (and can be reversed) from the original. So always keep that original and ... don't pass it on to someone else, because your name is connected to it, hence you would have passed it on, and nobody stole it
).
To summarize an important thing :
If the only means of getting the Activation Code to your Audio PC is an USB stick (or similar offline means), it is not going to work by automation. There's a manual procedure though; contact me by email or PM when the manual procedure is needed.
Peter
