To activate a standard license without access to the internet, take these steps:
Introduction
You can activate your standard license offline with a little bit of planning.
Method
- Go to your customer page and use one of the available Install Q Professional links.
- Click the button Install license only.
- A file named Your Company Name – Q Professional – Expires DD-MMM-YY.qlic will be downloaded.
- Copy the file to the computer with Q installed.
- Double-click the file on the computer.
- You will then see the License Agreement. Click Continue.
- You will see a message explaining that online activation failed:
- Click Save Offline Activation File...
- Save the file (named Q License Activation.qact) to your desktop, then copy it to a computer with Internet access.
- Close the message by clicking the X icon on the top-right of the message.
- Q will then start in unlicensed mode. Close Q.
- On your computer with Internet access, visit the web page https://www.q-researchsoftware.com/qlicensing/activate.aspx
- Click the Choose file button on the page, and select the Q License Activation.qact file you saved earlier.
- Then the web page will change to the following:
- Click the Download button.
- A file named Your Company Name – Q Professional – Expires DD-MMM-YY (1).qlic will be downloaded.
- Copy this new file to the computer with Q installed.
- Double-click the file on the computer.
- You will then see the License Agreement. Click Continue.
- Q will then start.
You can confirm the license has been successfully installed by looking at the title of the Q window. It will say No Project Loaded - Q Professional.
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