Extended Serial Number

I don't often look at the About SolidWorks dialog, but I recently
needed to enter my serial number for something and I noticed that in
addition to the 16 digits that have always been my serial number,
there are now 8 more alpha-numeric digits added to it. I am using
Office Professional and am at SP3.1. I'm not exactly sure when the
extra digits were added but I suspect it was along with the product
activation that happened with the upgrade from SP2.2 (I think) to
SP3.1. I did need to enter all 24 digits of my serial number, the
original 16 digits were not recognized as a valid serial number
anymore.

Not a real problem, just thought it was a little odd that SW would
change my serial number and not tell me about it.

 

Not a real problem, just thought it was a little odd that SW would

the s/n grew from 16 to 24 characters with the introduction of sw 2007
sp0.0. a dialog box with the revised s/n should have been presented to you
for viewing during the installation process.

 

On an SNL it is still 16 digits. SW2007 SP3.1

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ok wise guy ...

for standalone licenses

 

Kenneth,

My standalone installed 2007 SP0, and SP 2.1 with the normal 16 digets

WTF


Mark

 

I'm not being a wise guy. Just documenting the assumptions used for my
statement. If I didn't mention the SNL you would begin to think SW had
it in for you.

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Darn it's getting hard to finish a sentence with all the tornado
warnings going off.

 

touché!



"wtf" is the perfect acronym/internet shorthand to describe this.



i've got a screen shot if anyone wants a peek.

 

i pressed enter before i could sign my reply with "".

 

did i also mention that my version of sp0.0 requires a license file (web
registration)?

 

It's probably because you aren't forced to activation until SP3 and it's the
activation that pushes the S/N to the longer length.

WT