I’m keeping a hard drive with win XP and NIS which I’ve cloned and ugraded the cloned hd to Vista - looking to keep old progs going fairly safely after xp support stops on an old pc. The hd’s won’t be running at the same time. Will I run into any trouble with Norton keeping IS running and updating?
Rogerror wrote:
I'm keeping a hard drive with win XP and NIS which I've cloned and ugraded the cloned hd to Vista - looking to keep old progs going fairly safely after xp support stops on an old pc. The hd's won't be running at the same time. Will I run into any trouble with Norton keeping IS running and updating?
Hi,
So long as you are only running one copy of the program at any one time there should be no problem.
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This worked but yesterday when I swapped to XP and NIS says subscription expired. Same today. It seems to record an earier installation in 2011, not current one. Contacted Norton help/chat… Norton, each hard drive will count as one installation. Me: I have NIS on each hard drive Norton: How many hard drives you have? Me: 4, they are clones, one xp, one backup, one xp upgraded to Vista + back up Norton:Yes, even if they are back-up or clones each of them will still count on an installation. Therefore you will need four licenses… Licence says 3 pc’s not HD’s! The Norton chat view seems wrong and highly restrictive. Any advice/views?
PS - The NIS 2014 on the Vista drive still works fine, the XP drive offers an “upgrade” to 2014, which is really still on there!. If I did this upgrade would it take out the working NIS on Vist drive?
Unfortunately for us users this is Norton's official position. I too run a multiboot system and each OS -- XP, WIndows 7 and Windows 8.1 -- takes an activation from the count.
Norton counts the OS as the PC it would seem which is unfortunate since we can only use one at a time unlike a user with 4 separate cmputers who could use them all at once..
It has been raised before and the Norton Staff here were not unsympathetic but ...... changes ..... that would be marketing ....
Fortunately we can buy Norton cheaply enough in the open market from reputable authorized suppliers ...
Norton Internet Security 2014 - 5 Users -- $68 which is $14 a seat
but it would be nice ....
See if one of the Staff feels able to comment.