{"id":17,"date":"2015-05-28T13:09:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:09:39","slug":"activate-without-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/faq\/faq-licence-activation\/activate-without-internet-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Activate Without Internet Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTo activate your software on a PC with no Internet access you will need to create the licence using a different PC, which does have Internet access.&nbsp; This PC could be in a different department, such as IT, or even at home.&nbsp; You can save this licence to a USB memory stick or a network drive for use by the target PC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Licence Activation utility can be found using the Start Menu, under &quot;All Programs&quot; then either &quot;SOTA&quot; or &quot;State Of The Art&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tOn the PC you will be using to run the software<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\tTo install on a PC without Internet access first install the software on the target PC (the one you want to use the software on) and make a note of the &quot;Fingerprint&quot;, as shown in the licence activation program (it will be something like &quot;12BC-34DE&quot;). &nbsp;Please verify this is&nbsp;correct before creating the licence.\n<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tOn the PC with Internet Access<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\tNext install the software on the PC with Internet access and when you get to the licence activation part choose &quot;Create Licence for a different PC&quot;.<br \/>\n\tEnter your Serial Number, PIN and the &quot;hardware fingerprint&quot; you noted down from the other PC.<br \/>\n\tWhen the program asks you where to save the licence file choose your memory stick \/ flash drive.\n<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tOn the PC you will be using to run the software<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n\tTake the memory stick \/ flash drive to the target PC and using the licence activation program select &quot;Load Activation I made on a different PC&quot;. Select your memory stick as the licence location.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To activate your software on a PC with no Internet access you will need to create the licence using a different PC, which does have Internet access.&nbsp; This PC could be in a different department, such as IT, or even at home.&nbsp; You can save this licence to a USB memory stick or a network drive for use by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateoftheartsoftware.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}