I just installed my new Autodesk Inventor 2008 commercial version. As luck would have it, the install automatically picked up my old serial number from the student version of 2008 that I had just uninstalled. This is a great feature if you actually want the old version again. For me, not so good. So I started thinking .. How do I change the serial number in Autodesk Inventor 2008 without uninstalling the program. Well, it is really simple and here are the steps.
1. Inside of Inventor, go to Help -About.
Then click on the Product Information button.
2. You can see that the education version is installed. Now next to the serial number is a button called "Update".
3. On the update dialog box is a fyi... so type in the new serial number and hit "ok".
Now you may notice that the serial number doesn't automatically update, so you have to go to the documentation for the operating system...yada, yada. Well, I did that work for you... here are the steps to getting the new serial number to show.. From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225035/ "....
| Select the particular tool you want to run in administrative context (for example: Add/Remove Hardware). | ||||||||
| Highlight the selected tool by using a single left-click on the icon. | ||||||||
| Hold done the Shift key and right-click on the icon. You will notice the Run as... command the appears in the command list. | ||||||||
| Select the Run as... command. You will be prompted with a dialog box titled, "Run program as other user". | ||||||||
| Type the administrator account name and password in the appropriate fields. Note: the domain name can also be changed. | ||||||||
After entering the credential for the administrator account, click OK and the program associated with the tool will start in the administrative context. "
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