Protection PLUS Professional Edition

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Protect your applications and components by remotely managing customer access. Protection PLUS is a flexible software licensing toolkit that provides powerful control over creating trial versions, upgrading trials to full versions, extending trials, renting or leasing for an additional time period, and even permits turning on one or more menu options or applications in a suite. It also allows you to enable a pay-per-use event, increase or decrease a counter, or limit the number of simultaneous users on a network. Combine PLUS with SOLO Server and have a compete Electronic License Management system for your online business.

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Protection PLUS Professional Edition V4.4.1.0

Protection PLUS Professional Edition V4.4.1.0 - Subscription Renewal Licenses

Our prices include ComponentSource technical support and, for most downloadable products, an online backup and a FREE upgrade to the new version if it is released within 30 days of your purchase.  All sales are made on our standard Terms and Conditions and subject to our Return Policy. Please contact us if you require any licensing option not listed above including volume licensing and previous versions.

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New in Version 4.x:

• Changed to Keylib may also effect other libraries and LFEdit
• Added PP_NETOPEN, PP_NETTEST, and PP_NETCLOSE to DLL/LIB for Network Broadcast Licensing
• Added PP_SYSINFO to check the current system architecture: You can now detect and prevent your application from running on a VMWare virtual machine, a Virtual PC machine, or remotely through Terminal Services/ Remote Desktop client
• Fixed issue if using Registry Key and string didn't conform to Registry Key syntax
• Added error code in PP_COMPNO if COMPNO_BIOS64 is used on a non-x64 system
• Updated PP_EZTRIAL2 (EZTrial2 in SKCLNET) so that the <flags> parameter is passed into SK_ProcEZTrig1 for online activations
• Re-Added Late-Binding to IpHlpApi.dll for backwards compatibility with previous operating systems
• Fixed problem with locating BIOS driver files (Machnm1.exe, Machnm32.sys, and Machnm64.sys)
• Added Extra checking to see if BIOS driver (Machnm32.sys/Machnm64.sys) was installed before attempted to obtain the BIOS algorithm
• Added PP_LIBVERSION in DLL/LIB interface. Allows checking the version number of currently loaded library
• Updated read/write License File functionality to always keep the previous "Last Accessed" and "Last Modified" date/time of the physical file
• Fixed problem where Windows XP File Cache was holding the file open during reboot or forcible program closure. This was causing problems where license file was becoming corrupt, or 0KB in size. Due to this fix, the write of the license file takes a second or two longer
• Added LFALIAS_NOCACHE flag for PP_LFALIAS for compatibility with PP_LFOPEN's LFOPEN_NOCACHE flag
• Fixed problem if the license file was marked as "Read-Only"

Note: For the differences between the editions, please refer to the "See the differences between the editions" document from the Evals & Downloads section.

Instant PLUS 2.0 now available!

The two SoftwareKey products (Protection PLUS and SOLO Server) provide developers with a powerful, flexible software licensing platform with many features.

• Create Trial versions of your application that run for a number of days and/or executions
• Create subscription based licensing for your application
• Activate applications with three different methods
  • Online Activations (with Instant SOLO/SOLO Server)
  • Telephone/email activations
  • File based activation (with Instant SOLO/SOLO Server)
• Lock the application to the computer
• Periodically check the license status with the licensing server (with Instant SOLO/SOLO Server)
• Automatically check for updates from within application (with Instant SOLO / SOLO Server)
• Ability to register your customer’s information with Concept Software server or through a browser to a link you specify
• Easily display a splash screen at startup from your bitmap or use the default splash screen
• Detect Activation Key Generator programs
• Seamlessly integrates with Instant SOLO/SOLO server
• Integrated browser allows you to login into SOLO Server and manage your account
• Automatically retrieve your product information from SOLO which keeps your application’s settings in sync with SOLO
• Create new products in SOLO using an integrated wizard
• No need for previous SoftwareKey products such as LFEdit

SOLO Server is a complete backoffice product to manage your online software business.

Protection PLUS is field proven technology used by thousands of developers world-wide. The flexibility and power of Protection PLUS ensures licensing compliance world-wide for millions of dollars of software. This same protection is now available for software product licensing via the Internet. In addition to traditional means of distribution, Protection PLUS offers the tremendous benefits of Electronic Software Delivery while maintaining software security during the online licensing process.