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April 4, 2010
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Transferring MathCad 14 License from one Laptop to Another

  • April 4, 2010
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I have a new laptop with Windows 7 I am presently loading up with all my Microsoft and other programs from my old laptop. What is the least risky way of transferring MathCad 14 to my new laptop? Is it legal to load my new laptop from the upgrade disk that I have (and the original MathCad 8 Pro that I got, if necessary)? It seems like that is the least risky process vs. uninstalling MathCad first and then reinstalling.

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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April 4, 2010
A lot of people have had problems running (or even installing) Mathcad under Windows 7. Search this forum, and the main Mathcad forum: http://collab.mathsoft.com/~mathcad2000 Richard
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ptc-30871651-VisitorAuthor
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April 5, 2010
I have looked at the forums until 5 am. Aside from remarks about PTC taking "Draconian" measures to guard use of their license (inheritance of attitude from MathCad was implied). However the hope, provided in the forums was that if I phoned (evidently they prefer phone to written word for obvious reasons)the company might release an interim license to me so that I could reload MathCad from my upgrade disk and then operate it successfully. I certainly hope so, because I paid $1000 for this upgrade in January and have only operated it 2 months under PTC rules and now my old laptop is ailing and I need the program to get a new job with my new laptop. Anyway I will continue read all inputs to see if there is a benign way to transfer the existing license file dll to the new machine.
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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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April 5, 2010
The issue is not the license transfer. They have no way to know whether the previous copy of Mathcad is still on your old PC (unless you tell them that, of course). The only time it links to the license server it when it activates. You just need to tell them you are transferring to a new PC. The license file is specific to the PC (that is the point of the file), so you can't transfer it. The fact that it is Windows 7 is a different matter. There are lots of threads on both forums about problems with windows 7. Richard
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