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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / January 2007VPC Serial Number in use on another system - not!
I'm being prompted that the serial number for one copy of VPC is in use by another machine on the network. We have 10 unique licenses and I've tracked where they all are. There are no rogue copies out there (I checked). I shut down all running copies of VPC (checked with ARD scanning for all running apps). Still in use somewhere. I then tried uninstalling one copy and using that serial number for this system. All was well for a day, then the error was back. I updated to 6.1.1-still in use. I wiped the system and restored our master image-activated VPC with the original serial-still in use; activated with the uninstalled serial-still in use. The Microsoft knowledgebase was useless ("You need a unique license for each system"). Any relevant suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, Jon > I'm being prompted that the serial number for one copy of VPC is in use > by another machine on the network. > > We have 10 unique licenses and I've tracked where they all are. There > are no rogue copies out there (I checked). You may have to call Microsoft PSS, I've read about this problem before. > I'm being prompted that the serial number for one copy of VPC is in use > by another machine on the network. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Thanks. I would guess that you've tried the obvious: shutting down the Mac, wait a few seconds and then restarting it. Sometimes the system can complain about applications / files still already in use if (for example) it has previously crashed. Try unplugging that computer from the network to see if the problem is with that Mac or somewhere else on the network (eg. a wireless network may have a lurker "borrowin" bandwidth). On Mac OS X you may also want to run the Fix Permissions procedure in Disk Utility. Helpful Harry Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o) |
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