Community Tip - You can change your system assigned username to something more personal in your community settings. X
Another piece of the puzzle
You can check whether the license server is active without starting Express.
This avoids Express being blocked if he is not available.
Manual activation takes you through this page:
! edit link first !
USERNAME and COMPUTER-NAME must of course be replaced accordingly
"https://www.ptc.com/appserver/securePeModeling/peManualLic.jsp?lang=en&u=USERNAME&m=COMPUTER-NAME&w=6.1&v=40.00"
Have a nice week 😉
Thanks for the tip!