Guest EricFoy Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 I am posting this in the long shot that maybe someone can help me tonight. My trial ran out... yeah, I know, I'm a knucklehead not to get around to activating 'till now... but here I am in the evening with a bunch o' work, and at IC, nobody's home. It's cool; we all gotta sleep sometime. But it can get rough on guys like me who sleep better in the a.m. and work better in the p.m. So... anybody know how to FORCE the activation wizard to do its job? IC v11, 64-bit Vista. I tried running the wizard "as administrator": no help. First it says there is an error installing file, then says it was successful (a bald-faced lie ). ...so I'll just do some webmastering, I guess, 'till I get the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Send your serial number and code word to support within the next 10 mins and I will activate it. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Cary: Unbelievable. I just rolled in and looked at the forum, and noticed your response came just 27 minutes after I posted my problem. I think I checked it at about the 25 minute mark, then got distracted and just never got back to my IC work. Anyway, thanks for the valiant effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 (edited) Okay... Having received the license file from tech support, when I click on it, I get this... I've tried Uninstalling IC Cleaning the registry Reboot Install IC Reboot Still get the same response as above. Any tips? BTW: I like how the little pop-up flatly states there was an error, offering me the polite response of "Okay," as though I should just be okay with that. Seems it should also include a button saying, "Not Okay," even though it also simply closes the window. That way I could at least object rather than just feigning acquiescence... Edited May 20, 2009 by EricFoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Open the file you got from support in notepad. Copy the line or lines. Go to the Bin folder where IRONCAD is installed and find the lservrc file. Open it in notepad. Paste the contents on the last line. Save the file and try running IRONCAD. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Thanks, Cary. That worked. I guess it's a typical permissions-related Vista problem. I had to run Notepad "as administrator" in order to get it to save the file. Hey, I AM the administrator! I just hate it when they say something they don't really mean. I still can't figure out how to make these Vista permissions work. Why don't the Microsoftettes just implement a Root user like Unix? You just never seem to be able to get root privileges in Windows... (Yeah, you guessed it: I'm one of those lazy hacks who always logs in as root so I don't have to "sudo" everything I want to do). Anyway... I'm now up and running. Case closed. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I hope the Windows 7 corrects these permission issues. I agree that Vista is dang hard to understand due to this administrator stuff. Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twining Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 (edited) There are a couple of things you can do to lessen the Pain of the new Vista Access Control scheme... some of them are "not recommended" as they effectively defeat the intent of this new and "improved" system. 1) Use the "Run As Administrator" check box to always run a program (i.e. IronCAD or the License Wizard) with max rights: Link. 2) Disable the UAC (i.e. "Stop asking me if I really want to do the thing I just told you to do!"): Link. 3) (For you CMD folks like myself) Run a command (from the Start Menu) as an Admin:Link. And finally, a little history and background on the UAC, as well as some additional or alternate methods of minimizing the pain...Link. Edit: Just to put the Vista access policy into a sentence: "Run everything with the least privileges you have". You can theoretically (I haven't tried it) make everything run as an admin if you ensure that your username is only a member of the Administrators group, and not of anything lesser (like "Users"). My guess though, is that would probably introduce some other issues.... Edited May 20, 2009 by Mike Twining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 1) Use the "Run As Administrator" check box to always run a program (i.e. IronCAD or the License Wizard) with max rights:Yeah. Tried that a bunch. Didn't work. I pretty much launch everything "as administrator" anymore, since I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR... HELLOOOOO! Thanks, Mike, for the insights. Seriously, just that little tidbit helps me to know what's really going on, and what might possibly be a workaround or solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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