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Title: Media Center 10.0.173 Loses it's license
Post by: Bill Finkelstein on April 25, 2005, 03:50:02 pm

Greetings!

Every few weeks my licensed copy of Media Center forgets that it's licensed and gives me the "You 30 day trial is over" dialog - Forcing me to use one of my install key.  I'm down to 5 left  ?

I haven't reloaded anything... installed any strange patches or anything else that I can think of to confuse the software.

How can I stop this from happening before I run out of tickets?

Regards,
Bill

Title: Re: Media Center 10.0.173 Loses it's license
Post by: JimH on April 25, 2005, 03:52:10 pm

Are you changing your machine name?

Title: Re: Media Center 10.0.173 Loses it's license
Post by: Bill Finkelstein on April 25, 2005, 03:55:03 pm

Yes, I had to as I'm on a sailboat and needed to change my computer name to use the local WiFi connection here in the Marina we're in for the week in Mexico.

Title: Re: Media Center 10.0.173 Loses it's license
Post by: JimH on April 25, 2005, 03:58:22 pm

Tough life!  Sounds like fun.

Your restores get re-added 12 months after they're used, so it may not be a problem.  Let us know if you run out.

BTW, you shouldn't need to change the machine name to access a wireless LAN.

Title: Re: Media Center 10.0.173 Loses it's license
Post by: Bill Finkelstein on April 25, 2005, 04:02:42 pm

I take it then that if you change your computer name, you need to refresh the license...  I guess I'll have to stop renaming the computers  ::)

FYI - you can take a look at what we're up to on our sail boat Raptor Dance at http://raptordance.com

Regards,
Bill