I'm using the same S7 version but it is on a PC desktop running W2K pro. The PG720 perhaps is the differance. Same thing happens on my laptop in NT 4.0. From my point of view all this authorization and protection stuff on the part of PLC software suppliers is a bit short sighted anyhow.

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I mean, if a new client comes to me looking for a PLC I am more likely to send him to PLC direct or Control MicroSystems just because he won't need to spend $3k or so on software. If I were a PLC manufacture I couldn't give the software away fast enough. Heck I'd want everyone to have the software so they would by the hardware. As a practical matter anyone who wants to baypass the authorizations or protections can. It just take some creativity and a willings to break the law. Download skins cs 1.6 shotgun gamebanana.

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For those of us that make our living programming we have to own the legal stuff. Thanks for the feedback Lenny. Yes you can create a copy of your license, but be warned it's illegal. As you can create multiple license's first you need two things. 1) you need a sector copying tool like norton disk edit 2) you need a very small partition of your harddisk say about 4 MB now here is what you do: Install your license on the small partition, create a sector backup of this partition. Move the license back on the original disk.