My family uses a number of PCs and Laptops and all of them have NIS 2013 installed. We do this by purchasing 3-User Product Keys. Two of our assortment of computers have been upgraded to NIS 2014 as a free upgrade; the rest are currently using NIS 2013.
My son has just purchased a new Laptop which came with NIS 2013 pre-installed as a two month trial which he has registered using his own credentials. I want to use a spare NIS 2013 3-User Product Key registered in my own name for this Laptop. If I enter my Product Key into his copy of NIS will there be any conflict due to the original registration?
If doing this would cause a problem, what should I do to remove his trial copy and install my third available 3-User copy.
Thanks for the reply. We are quite happy for him to use my Product Key and my registration details - we have done this before with prpevious versions but not to an installation that had already been registered.
I wasn't aware that the product key would be valid for 2013 or 2014 - that's worth remembering for the future.
My family uses a number of PCs and Laptops and all of them have NIS 2013 installed. We do this by purchasing 3-User Product Keys. Two of our assortment of computers have been upgraded to NIS 2014 as a free upgrade; the rest are currently using NIS 2013.
My son has just purchased a new Laptop which came with NIS 2013 pre-installed as a two month trial which he has registered using his own credentials. I want to use a spare NIS 2013 3-User Product Key registered in my own name for this Laptop. If I enter my Product Key into his copy of NIS will there be any conflict due to the original registration?
If doing this would cause a problem, what should I do to remove his trial copy and install my third available 3-User copy.
<< ... but not to an installation that had already been registered. >>
You did say it was a trial installation that came with the computer ..... it is still in the trial period so I don't know what you mean by "registered" ..... ?
The registration of the trial version will not affect the situation when you enter your product key into his product. The trial will expire and your subscription will take over.
One possible side effect is your son may see some emails warning the product is not protected after the trial period expires. Do not worry about that. The emails will stop in about 30 days.
My son has just purchased a new Laptop which came with NIS 2013 pre-installed as a two month trial which he has registered using his own credentials.
It sounds like your son has already registered the laptop using his own registration in his name and his own Norton account. It sounds like he didn't wait for the trial period to end before he registered the laptop in his own name and account. If you now want to use your own registration, the trial period is already up since your son registered the laptop in his name. If you now enter your product key, it will negate and end the registration that your son started and the registration key that you enter will end when the first time that key was first used. Will your son be willing to have wasted his registration in his own name for a shorter registration in your name? You might want to use your key on another computer which has no registration of it's own already in existance. That's my opinion.
Nobody has said that the fathers key has a shorter length of subscription than the 60 day trial.
The son needs his own Norton account anyway so it's not a waste of time.
He can use his own Norton account for his online identity safe so it's seperate from the families.
He also can use it to setup his own Norton Zone should he choose to do so.
Management of the key will not be in his account, that will change to his fathers, but everyone using a Norton product can benifit from having there own Norton account.
I assumed it was registered to his account because his account email address appears at the top of the NIS window. Using my account to manage his copy is not a problem.
I wasn’t aware that an individual sharing a 3-user licence could have a different Norton Account as we haven’t made use of the other facilities an account offers.
His trial runs out in a few days and mine has 11 months to run having purchased it very recently.
Once again thanks for all the comments and advice.