With effect from version 2.12, ASTER automatically generates a backup copy of information about active licenses to save on the software licensing server. This copy allows for recovering all your activated keys by several clicks. It can be useful in the event of crash, disk formatting, or if you cannot remember serial numbers and have to restore all purchased licenses. The backup copy is created after every activation and sent to server.
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By default, ASTER has a 30-days trial period. During this period, you can test all functions of the program and make the final decision of buying it. You will be able to use ASTER with no functional limits until the trial period expires. After the trial period has expired, any attempts of starting the program will make the user go either through the license activation procedure or through software uninstallation. To continue you have to purchase and activate the license.
During the trial period after launching the program, a window will pop up with the request to enter the activation key and with the information about the duration of its free use. You can also go to the activation procedure from the About page at any time. To activate the product you need Internet connection. Click the Register button to start the license activation procedure, enter the activation key and click the Activate button. After the successful activation, you will need to restart the program ASTER Control, as you will be offered to do.
The purchase and activation of the permanent license (unlimited by time) gives you the right for an additional 30-day trial period. This period will allow you to test ASTER with more terminals, and possibly make a decision of buying extra workplaces. All your purchased licenses are added up. However, you should remember that currently the number of ASTER terminals is limited to 12.
The count of the used days of the additional trial period starts only after the test terminals activation. It allows you to make a decision about the expediency of buying the extra licenses later, when you make sure that your computer operating system allows working comfortably with the existing workplaces, and you want to check the possibility of increasing the number of terminals. You can activate extra trial terminals using the activation dialog mentioned above (you will see the button Activate Trial Terminals), or from the context menu in the Terminals tab:
If you have installed the beta-version ASTER V7 v2.0, you should deinstall it and install the release version, otherwise the activation will not be successful! Moreover, the key will become invalid until we solve the problem which you asked the helpdesk to solve!
Beginning from version 2.15 a special interface has been added for sending requests for upgrading the keys from the previous versions of ASTER XP and V7 with the keys of version 2.xx. In the activation dialogue the Upgrade Key button has been added. When you press it you will see the dialogue box for sending the request for upgrading the key:
Contrary to the ordinary activation ID (serial number) which is mostly intended for ASTER activation on a single computer, using a packet activation ID (packet serial number) ASTER may be activated on several computers. The packet serial number is useful in multiple ASTER installations, for example, in companies, or while distributing computers with preinstalled software including ASTER. Personnel responsible for ASTER multiple installation and activation on many computers have only to save and use just one (packet) serial number, and not a lot of different numbers for which one has to remember binding of the number with a specific computer.
Manual activation by the packet serial number is carried out in a completely similar fashion as activation by an ordinary serial number i.e. you enter this number in the relevant dialog activation box. The packet serial number is sent to the ASTER license server, where the server selects from the relevant package a free (i.e. not yet activated) ordinary serial number, activates it and attaches to the computer which sent the activation request. In case of a repeated activation request from the same computer the server finds out the corresponding entry and sends the registration information which already is in the database. In other words, in accidental (or intentional) repeated activations the new ordinary serial number will not be spent.
Enter the purchased packet serial number in the box License Package; if you wish for security to protect against the usage of your packet serial number by unauthorized persons, enter the password in Password. In this case, in ASTER activation on clone computers it will be necessary to enter this password.
After that the ASTER Master License will be removed from the computer and you can use it for creation of the next set of clone computers for another contract/purchase order for your hardware and software system.
An (almost) auto ASTER activation takes place in initial startup of ASTER Control on the clone computer if software finds out the Master License on disk. If the Master License was created without password protection only a proposal to activate ASTER will be displayed. If the master license in the course of creation was password protected you have to enter this password. After entering the password (if need be), and pressing the Activate button, all that is needed from the operator is to click to confirm elevation of privilege up to the administrator level. Further activation will be made automatically in unattended mode.
You may deactivate all or a part of the purchased ASTER licenses. You may need it, for example, if you have to transfer licenses to another computer, or to correct your errors in the product activation (you confused serial numbers and as a consequence activated the license not on the computer for which it was intended). Deactivation is performed in the window ASTER Activation Dialog, on a tab Restore/Deactivate, and includes several steps. As a result of deactivation process, the licenses you have chosen become invalid and instead of them you will get the new equivalent licenses.
The first step is generating requests for license deactivation. Press the button Prepare Deactivation. The window appears with a list of valid licenses activated on this computer as follows, select licenses you want to deactivate:
Enter a message where it is advised to denote the deactivation reason, and, though it is essentially not encouraged, you may indicate in the letter your specific wishes concerning deactivated licenses. For example, you may link the licenses you will get instead of deactivated ones to the other name/or Email address (see below).
At present, due to some limitations of the license server, the processing of deactivation requests cannot be fully automated, and can take some time. During this period, the licenses you have chosen for deactivation remain valid, and you can use ASTER. At each startup the program ASTER Control will check whether the requested data is ready, and when your request has been processed you will get notification in form of the popup box with the following message, or in form of notification on the taskbar if the ASTER icon is iconified in the bottom left corner:
To do this, press Deactivate Licenses in the box ASTER Activation Dialog on the tab Restore/Deactivate. The software will get in touch with the license server, read out information required for deactivation and request to confirm deactivation:
If yes, deactivation of selected licenses will be carried out and instead you will get new keys which will be displayed after deactivation (information on a number of places for that key is given within brackets):
As a rule, this hotkey is rarely used since no need to use it arises. However, certain software (for example, Adobe products) may use this key combination. As the ASTER driver catches it faster than the software, it may entail inconvenience. The computer context menu on the tab Terminals of the ASTER Control program has a menu item Keyboard/Mice switch hotkey which allows either for reassigning this key combination or disabling it at all.
If your PC has the Internet connection via the proxy server and you have no direct Internet access, you might face some problems when the ASTER Control software requires Internet access for activating the key, the trial period, deactivation, etc. By default the software is trying to connect with the licensing server directly. Beginning from version 2.15 ASTER control can be adjusted for connecting to the Internet via the proxy server.
When you buy an ASTER license, you will receive a product activation code. To activate the license, you must have an internet connection on the computer. To activate the license click on the Registration tab, then enter the activation code, and then click the Activate button. After successful activation, you will be asked to restart the program ASTER Control Panel which is mandatory.
Acquisition and activation of an ASTER Pro (lifetime) license give you the right to an additional 14-day trial. This trial period will allow you to test ASTER with a large number of workplaces and possibly decide on the purchase of an additional license. Multiple licenses can be activated on one computer to get additional workplaces. But remember ASTER has a limit of total workplaces from one computer, which is 12 workplaces (max).
Unlike the usual activation code designed in most cases to activate the ASTER program on a single computer, the activation code (Batch activation code) can activate ASTER on several computers. Batch activation code is useful for the mass installation of ASTER, for example, in organizations or when distributing computers with pre-installed software, which includes ASTER. It is enough to remember and use only one batch activation code instead of many activation codes and its installation ID. 2ff7e9595c
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