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Does Flare 4 still save activation information in the user hive of the registry? We have our V. 3 copies installed in a teaching classroom/lab and discovered that each unique user needed to input the license key. This forced us to create a generic local account so any user of that machine could use ...

We have 5 licenses and it is installed on 5 machines.

If you have 5 licenses you should have 5 unique license keys, correct? Was a unique license key assigned to each of the 5 computers during Flare's initial startup?

Yes, absolutely.

To respond to RamonS above, the accounts were not resident ...

I did actually install it for all users. We are not using roaming profiles. Each unique student who logs into the machine is prompted for the key which is not a workable solution, obviously. Shouldn't is have been activated when I installed it?

We have 5 licenses and it is installed on 5 machines.

I have installed Flare 3.1 in a computer lab environment, and entered the product key under an administrative account. However, the student users are being prompted to enter a key when they launch the program. These students users are authenticating against our campus Active Directory and as you ...