Re-enter licence key everytime when starting Proppfrexx

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Re-enter licence key everytime when starting Proppfrexx

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Hi Bernd,

a radio colleague of mine uses Proppfrexx at home which is registered via usb.
Now he reinstalled his pc and had to reinstall Proppfrexx.
He was able to register Proppfrexx via usb, but now has to do this every time he starts Proppfrexx. I don't think this is the intention or not?

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Re: Re-enter licence key everytime when starting Proppfrexx

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When registering in the USB mode, he must use the "-usbReg" command-line option whenever you start ProppFrexx!
To add the command-line option, please adjust your startup command in e.g. your windows icon, startup menu link etc.!

From the User Manual:
Note, that there are three different registrations modes available:
1) Normal Registration: The Ident-Number is tied to your local machine.
2) Harddisk Registration: The Ident-Number is tied to your installation hard disk.
3) USB-Device Registration: The Ident-Number is tied to a USB-Device (ie. USB-Stick).
Make sure to select the proper registration mode prior to registering!
You can enforce a certain registration mode by starting ProppFrexx ONAIR with either the “-fileReg” or the “-usbReg” command-line option (or directly in the following registration dialog). If you don’t specify any command-line option (or have not specified a certain registration mode in the registration dialog) the normal registration mode is selected. Each registration mode will generate an individual Ident-Number and requires a different license (registration keys)! Note, that once you registered ProppFrexx ONAIR with a certain registration mode you should use/run ProppFrexx ONAIR each time with this same option (e.g. if you registered with the USB-Device mode (e.g. by using the “-usbReg” command-line option ...


-usbReg
By default, ProppFrexx ONAIR uses a machine related registration. This means the registration process ties the Ident-Number and the registration data to the local computer and stores the registration information to the users windows registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). This means, the registration is only valid on this computer/PC and if the machine configuration changes (e.g. your CPU, motherboard or network settings change) your registration might become invalid as the Ident-Number might change with it. As an alternative you can enforce ProppFrexx ONAIR to tie the registration to almost any removable USB-Device (ie. a USB-Stick). Use the above command-line option to do so. In this case the registration information will be stored on the root path of the selected USB-Device. This registration method has the advantage that you can use this USB-Stick even on different machines – but only on one at a time and the Ident-Number will not change, if you change your machine configuration! However, the USB-Device must be present all the time ProppFrexx ONAIR is running!
Note, that the USB-Device registration will present you a different Ident-Number and therefore requires new registration data to be obtained from RADIO42!
This means, if you wish to use both (standard and USB-Device) registrations you need to request two independent registration keys (2 licenses are needed)!
If you selected the USB-Device registration method make sure to run/start ProppFrexx ONAIR every time with this command-line option! If you start ProppFrexx ONAIR and omit this option the standard registration will become active (for which you might not have registered so far)!
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Re: Re-enter licence key everytime when starting Proppfrexx

Post by AFM-Radio »

Of course! Completely forgot how to do that again. Thanks! It's working!

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