What is an activation?

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When installing Lightning on your PC, you must enter a license code. This happens automatically when you request a free trial. We email you a serial number when you purchase a floating or PC-bound license.

When you enter your serial and click Register, Lightning creates an activation for your PC. This means that Lightning stores your hardware fingerprint on our license server and creates a license file on your PC.

Lightning compares this file with the data on our license server when it starts up.

This is how Lightning makes sure your license is still valid. We also detect when a user tampered with the file.

Lightning license window

Can I have one activation or multiple ones?

For trials, you can have only one activation.

Lightning floating licenses have unlimited activations. There is a default limit, but please contact us and we can increase this number for you.

PC-bound licenses support one activation per license seat. When you purchase 3 seats, you receive one license key that you can activate on three computers.