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Deactivating your product for a Single-user License

Deactivating your product returns the license to the SDL Activation Server. You may want to do this if you plan to:

About this task

  • Move your license to another computer.
  • Reformat your computer and then install the SDL software on the same machine again.

Before you start:

About this task

To deactivate your product online, you need Internet access. If for some reason it cannot access the Activation Server, it will prompt you to perform an offline deactivation.

To deactivate your product:

Procedure

  1. Display the Product Activation dialog box.
  2. In the Product Activation dialog box, click Deactivate.
  3. A prompt is displayed asking if you want to deactivate your product. Click Yes.

    A message is displayed indicating that the deactivation was successful. The license has now been returned and can be activated again with a different installation of the software.