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Activating or Deactivating AQT One

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This article explains how to activate or deactivate AQT One on your computer. To assign or unassign licences as an Admin, see Adding and removing users from a license.

Your Admin tells you which way to activate. You need the latest version of AQT One. See Installing & Uninstalling AQT One.

The AQT License Manager window

You activate and deactivate AQT One in the AQT License Manager window. It opens by itself when AQT One is not activated. To open it at any other time, select Help > Licence… in AQT One.

The window gives three ways to activate:

  • Sign in to activate - sign in with your AQT account. Most users activate this way.

  • Use a licence key - enter a licence key from your Admin. This is under Other ways to activate.

  • Use an offline licence - for a computer with no internet access. This is also under Other ways to activate.

Activating with an Account

Accepting an invitation

If you do not have an account yet, your Admin sends you an invitation email. Click the link in the email. This creates your account and signs you in to the License Portal.

If you already belong to another AQT workspace, the portal asks you to confirm first. Joining the new workspace removes you from the old one, and you lose any licence you had there.

Activating AQT One

  • Open AQT One and select Sign in to activate. Your web browser opens the sign-in page. Keep AQT One open while you sign in.

    If the browser does not open, click the link in the AQT License Manager window. You can also open this link on another device.

  • Enter your email address and click Continue. Then sign in the way your workspace allows: with a password, with a link sent to your email, with a Microsoft account, or with your organisation’s single sign-on.

  • When the page says you are signed in, go back to AQT One.

  • AQT One says it is activated. Click OK.

The sign-in link works for 30 minutes. If it runs out, click Try again in the AQT License Manager window to get a new one.

How many computers you can use

You can be signed in on up to three computers at the same time. If you sign in on a fourth, AQT One signs out the computer you used least recently. An Admin can remove your computers in the License Portal under Users > Manage devices.

Activating with a Licence Key

  • Open AQT One and select Use a licence key.

  • Paste your licence key into the License Key box and click Activate.

  • AQT One says it is activated. Click OK.

Each computer that uses the key takes one licence from your workspace. To give that licence to another computer, deactivate AQT One on this one first. See Deactivating AQT One.

Activating with an Offline Licence

Use an offline licence only on a computer that cannot connect to the internet. If the computer can connect, sign in or use a licence key instead.

Offline activation takes three steps. You send a code for your computer to your Admin. Your Admin makes a licence for that computer. Then you install the licence.

Step 1: Send your computer’s code to your Admin

  • Open AQT One and select Use an offline licence.

  • Click Copy Fingerprint. AQT One copies a code for this computer, called the fingerprint.

  • Paste the fingerprint into a text file and send it to your Admin, for example on a USB drive.

Step 2: Your Admin makes the licence

Your Admin does these steps in the License Portal:

  • Go to the Licenses page and find the user’s licence group.

  • Click Other activation options and select Add offline machine.

  • Paste the fingerprint and click Register Machines. To add several computers, put each fingerprint on its own line.

  • Open the licence group’s menu and select Download offline license.

  • Keep Version 2 and Version 1 both ticked, and click Download ZIP.

  • Send the ZIP file to the user.

After you add a computer, it stays in that licence group for 30 days. During that time you cannot remove it or move it to another group.

Version 1 and Version 2 licences

AQT One 1.0.17 and later uses a Version 2 licence. Older versions of AQT use Version 1. If you are not sure which one a computer needs, keep both ticked. The ZIP file then holds one file for each version.

Step 3: Install the licence

  • Copy the ZIP file to the computer and unzip it.

  • Open AQT One and select Use an offline licence.

  • Click Install Offline License and select license.aqtl. This is the Version 2 file. Select license.lic only for an older version of AQT.

To set up many computers, you can instead copy both files into the %APPDATA%\AQT folder before you start AQT One. AQT One uses the right file by itself.

The AQT License Manager window shows when the licence expires. To install a newer licence, click Install licence file…. You do not need to remove the old one first.

Deactivating AQT One

Deactivate AQT One before you uninstall it or stop using a computer. This frees your licence for another computer. Uninstalling AQT One does not deactivate it.

  • In AQT One, select Help > Licence….

  • Click the button at the bottom of the window:

    • Sign out - if you activated with an account.

    • Remove licence - if you activated with a licence key or an offline licence. Click Yes to confirm.

When you close the window, AQT One asks if you want to activate again. Click No to close AQT One.

Deactivating without an internet connection

Sign out works without an internet connection. But the computer can still count towards your three-computer limit for up to 14 days. An Admin can remove it sooner in the License Portal.

For a licence key, Remove licence needs an internet connection to free the licence. Without one, AQT One asks if you want to remove the licence anyway. Click No and try again later when you are online. If you click Yes, the licence stays in use until your Admin removes the computer in the License Portal.

Do not copy the %APPDATA%\AQT folder to another computer to move your licence. A licence only works on the computer it was activated on.