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Chris, Thanks for the clarification!

Rick, The solution is dongle or key. I have ORCAD, a PCB cad system and I use a donlge. I can use it on any machine but only one at a time becasue of the dongle. IC will have to start using dongles or keys for security. This method they are currently using is impossible. This dongle gives IC the assurance that the license is not being abused and it gives the customers the asurance that if their system crashes or they want to upgrade, they can move the dongle and the software to another machine without much hassle.

Rick, I actually bought Trispective (the forerunner to IronCad) for about $300 and took the offer from IC to upgrade to Irocad 1.0. I only use it at home to work on some ideas part time. I don't do mech design at my full time job. They have ProE there. I just want the ability to move IC to any new PC I will buy in the future. I am planning to upgrade to a workstation next year. I don't want to have to pay to move the software to my new PC. No one else uses my PC. I don't want it for free. I paid for it.

Rick, The solution is to use a dongle. I also have an Orcad PCB license and it came with a dongle. I just have to connect the dongle to the machine I am using and register the machines online. I can register as many machine as I want but can only use one at a time. I am planning to buy a workstation early next year and would like to install IC on it but I don't know how that will work. I currently use a consumer PC to run IC.

I go back to the days of Trispective and I love IC but I don't like the new licensing method. I loaded IC5 on my current PC and will soon be upgrading the PC. It will be a hassle loading it on the new PC. Maybe IC should use the dongle instead of the Microsoft Windows-XP method. I quess I will just stick with IC4.2 and not renew my AA.