Take care with system maintenance activities that affect computer identity.
The stand-alone licensing process regularly verifies some identifying data about the host computer, such as the hard drive, graphics card, network card address, and RAM size. Routine computer maintenance activities that change this data must be conducted carefully to avoid causing license errors.
Some license errors require you to reactivate your product. In this case, the Product Activation wizard is displayed when you try to run the product, and provides instructions for product activation.
The topics in this section can help you prevent some common license errors.