Move an activated product to another computer - What is the correct method

[sunflower2772]

Say I got a permanent Labview license for one PC only. Say I activated the labview license on the PC, later found out the PC is too slow, and want to transfer Labview to another PC.

My agent instructed me to uninstall the activated labview on the existing PC without needing the PC to be online,  and call up National Instrument about the transfer so they can update their database. Is this the correct method?

 But it seems it is possible to cheat by having labview still in the old PC without uninstalling it, call NI to say that I have uninstall the activated Labview in the old PC, and give NI the new computer ID to activate Labview on the new PC. Do this 100 times and I got 100 PC with Labview permanently activated.

Is my understanding correct? Advance thanks. 

[TCPlomp]

You can always cheat, however I assume that the activation computer of NI will detect such actions on specific licenses.

Ton

[Ray.R]

You might get away with one.  I doubt you'll get much further than that.

[falkpl]

I think the correct method is to goto the liscence manager of the first computer, de-activate the liscence then activate the new pc, now you have only one PC active.   

[Ray.R]

Paul is correct.  That is the correct way of moving licenses.  Cheating will not get you very far.

[asdlkfjalskdjf]

Sorry to bump old post, but this is relevant to me.

I wish to switch from one PC to another.  The kicker is the new PC is government owned and cannot be put on the internet.  How will I be able to license it?

[billko]

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@asdlkfjalskdjf wrote:

Sorry to bump old post, but this is relevant to me.

I wish to switch from one PC to another.  The kicker is the new PC is government owned and cannot be put on the internet.  How will I be able to license it?

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It'a bit convulted, but basically you follow the prompts, telling your installation that you aren't connected to the internet.  it will instruct you to call an automated number which will generate a license based on info you give it.

I believe that is how it is done.

[camerond]

You really need to determine if you have a "Named User" license or a "computer based" license (see http://www.ni.com/pdf/legal/us/software_license_agreement.pdf). If you have a Named User license, you can have LabVIEW on up to three (3) computers, as long as you are the only one using it under this license and you don't have it running on more than one computer at once. If it's a computer based license, you can only have it on one computer, but anyone you authorize can use it.

So, you may not have to do anything to put it on another computer.

Cameron