TurboActivate Not RespondingSolved

Hi,

I have a customer who is unable to activate his license because TurboActivate.exe is hanging - becoming unresponsive. I've asked him to run TurboActivate on its own to no avail. He's running Vista x64. Have also asked him to try running as admin. No joy.

This is not the first customer to report this and I have refunded some customers as a result (rather than risk sending them an unprotected version).

Do you have any ideas what may be causing this or what I could ask him to try so that we can get to the bottom of it and get his license activated?

First of all, are you using the latest version of TurboActivate? Get it on your API page.

At what point is TurboActivate hanging? And is it really hanging, or is it just taking a long time? If I were to guess, I'd say either an internal firewall or proxy is blocking access either from TurboActivate (or your app) or to wyday.com.

What happens when they use Offline activation?

If offline activation isn't "hanging" then the problem is with their internet layers in their network (proxies, firewalls, etc.). If it is "hanging" then what they've got is probably due to overly restrictive editing of the Group Policy Editor. Tell them to allow unrestricted Read/Write access to the %appdata% folder. Also, tell them to allow unrestricted read access to all registry. Lastly, tell them to disable any group policy filters they have on WMI -- WMI should be unrestricted for both non-admin and admin users.

If I were to guess, I would say that restrictive WMI filters are placed on accounts. They should remove any filters using the Group Policy editor.

Have also asked him to try running as admin.

TurboActivate doesn't require admin privileges.

Add logging to your app and tell me which TurboActivate functions are succeeding and which ones are taking too long.

I'll double check I have the latest version and get him to try it if not.

May just be unresponsive, I didn't ask how long he waited. He says it is not even showing the TurboActivate UI. So I'm assuming it is happening before any attempt to access wyday.com

He's tried just running TurboActivate.exe directly without my app running. And he says nothing shows up.

I'll ask him if he has a firewall running etc.

Will keep you posted.

He's tried just running TurboActivate.exe directly without my app running. And he says nothing shows up.

It's probably crashing. We fixed the crashing bug a couple of months ago. Get the latest version of TurboActivate.

Yes, the new version fixed it. I hadn't realised there was an update. Should have checked before posting. Many thanks.