Can I install on a laptop of my 11 yo daughter who is here in weekends as part of my 3 licence pack?
Cheers
Tony
Can I install on a laptop of my 11 yo daughter who is here in weekends as part of my 3 licence pack?
Cheers
Tony
The Answer is YES!
Even though you are installing the product on same hard disk, it will be considered as the usage of second license since the operating system differs. Your Norton product can be installed on a computer with more than one operating system, as long as each operating system is installed on a separate partition.
Be sure to create the dual or multiboot configuration using the Microsoft instructions for the operating systems that you want. Information on installing more than one Windows operating system to a single computer might be found in your Microsoft Windows documentation or online in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Be sure to install one Norton product separately for each operating system. Also, ensure that the Norton program installation folder is different for each operating system
Hi Phil and tks
Meant to also ask, is my PC that dual boots to XP/W7 counted as one PC?
Cheers
Tony
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Can I install on a laptop of my 11 yo daughter who is here in weekends as part of my 3 licence pack?
Cheers
Tony
According to this post by Symantec Employee GayathriT, the dual boot computer will be counted as one machine. (I learned something there.)
However, please read the entire post in case you get a message about exceeding the number of activations.
As Phils says .... icnluding that it is the first I've seen this said here and I thought I'd seen the contrary. Since Norton Account does not tell you how many times you have used the permission nor the names or other IDs of the computers it's hard to tell.
I'd suggest trying and if you get the exceeding message let us know and we can ask Symantec staff about it -- or contact Customer Support via chat and quote the message here -- they have the means to untangle things like this in the database.
And BTW, in my experience Microsoft Windows does not get upset at multiple booting the same OS on the same hardware -- I have active and test bed installations of VISTA and regularly reinstall the test bed from an image. From time to time it wants to reactivate that or check the authenticity on line but it always come back OK.
Thanks so much for the replies/support, much appreciated.
I will need to wait until I replace my laptop as my daughter is the proud owner as of yesterdays birthday. I will install Norton IS on my other boot on this PC and on her laptop next weekend. Although I could install it on her older bedroom PC to make the 4 installs on 3 PC's as a test. I would want to remove it from that older one when I get my new laptop, to keep withion 3 PC's. I thought Symantec may track the MAC addresses in order to monitor that.
Will try next weekend to get the 3 licence used on 4 boots.
Cheers
Tony