Quote Originally Posted by Rob-Xar View Post
...Yes, every 1 month anniversary Xara will try to connect to the activation server to see if that computer is still valid. You can have it offline for periods in-between though so if your brave enough to take your laptop on holiday and work for example...
erm, Rob...Do you know off-hand if there is any leeway on this? That meaning if there isn't an internet connection available when it checks, is there a decent grace period to keep using the software until we can get connected to the internet? Our email software checks every 10 days and gives us a 5 day grace period if we're not connected to the internet when it is scheduled to check. We live way out in the woods and only early last year upgraded from very, very slow dial-up to a very spotty and poor, but a ton faster when it's available, cellular hotspot device that we use for the internet. During the midday hours in the summer we lose all cell signal/internet for several hours. It could possibly suck to have the software check, not find an internet connection and deactivate until the sun starts to set and we regain cell signal. And then if that happens, is it just a simple matter of re-establishing an internet connection and re-starting the software to automatically verify the registration or is it a more drawn out procedure? I was about to upgrade to 11 but now...ionno.....sounds like it could be a big hassle every month


EDIT: oooffff....i type slow and just read this after i posted the above
Quote Originally Posted by Rob-Xar View Post
Yes, simply go to Help > Deactivate, the program will then close down, start it up again, click activate and your good to go offline for 30 days.
i guess i can just do this myself every friday evening just to ensure it doesn't deactivate on me then during an internet down time.
(thx @handrawn for pulling this info out of Rob sucky workaround but it'll work for me i guess)