Cal and Dick,

Thanks for the additional informtion. I installed and activated Money on
the new computer, downloaded the updates and everything seems to be working
fine. According to Money Help - About, my version is Microsoft Money Plus
Deluxe. I also notice that the serial number shown on the Help - About page
is different between the two computers but that they both show the same
expiration date which is twenty-four months after the date Money was first
installed on the FIRST (older) computer. This all seems to me to be
consistent with your posts.

Thanks again.

Robert
"Rapid Robert" <OE6RW39[at]cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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Let's be careful in this thread: M+, nee M08, IS activated online and it
DOES keep track of activations against some kind of hash key generated on
each machine.

Supposedly you can call the phone number that comes up when it refuses and
explain your situation.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Rapid Robert wrote:

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Money Plus has an activation system that you can activate on up to
two computers. You can run for I think 30 days after install and
before activation.

If you need to replace one of those computers, I don't know how you
would handle that.

Thanks very much for your reinforcement guys. I've never quite trusted the
background banking enough to use it, choosing instead to get my downloads
explicitly, but the reboot sounds like a good idea anyway - I'll do it just
to be a little safer. Thanks again. (If I get in trouble, I'll let you
know!)

"Rapid Robert" wrote:

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I didn't see Bob Peel's reply before I wrote the above. So there's an answer
to do they track the serial #s for updates.

Rapid Robert wrote:
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It will also work if you install Money on the new computer first, and allow it
to do it's first update (where it gets any updates from Microsoft), and then
copy the data file from your old computer to your new computer. Then 'open'
the copied money date file and you'll be ready.

Having does this recently, there are a few minor settings that do not transfer
with the Money data file, they are set to their default when you install anew.
The ones I recall are Prompt to save a New Payee name, and Save electronic
payments as drafts instead of sending immediately. And just the opposite
happens in the backup file location, it does transfer with the Money data file.

One thing to note for copying the old file, and this only applies if you do
background backing (sync with banks, credit cards or FIs). Even though you
close the Money GUI screen, if you have any background banking setup, the
background banking processes will continue to open and update the Money data
file after you close the Money GUI. The way to get a clean, closed money data
file is to exit out of the Money GUI, reboot your computer and do not get back
in the GUI screen after you reboot. In doing so you'll notice the Money has
not updated the data file since you rebooted.

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licensed on a per copy per device basis." and "11. TRANSFER TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
You may uninstall the software and install it on another device for your use.
You may not do so to share this license between devices." My guess is this
works on the honor system, but they could very well be sophisticated here and
cutoff updates on one system after you activate it on a new system.

Rapid Robert wrote:
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That should work. Assuming new PC has Vista you need to follow the rules
that have been posted here many times about making sure that .mny and .mbf
files are somewhere where you have full access.

MS do not have a database of serial numbers or whatever, in fact you don't
have to register Money with MS. The blandishments to do so are solely so
they can bombard you with spam - sorry important marketing messages! :-)

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


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"Rapid Robert" <OE6RW39[at]cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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I'm running Money 2008 and recently added a new computer to my home network.
I want to run Money on the new computer instead of the older one. My plan
is to move the Money database to the new computer, install Money on the new
computer using the same installation disk I used before on the older
computer and then use the new install to open the moved database on the new
computer. I do NOT want to continue running Money on the older computer and
will uninstall it when I'm sure everything is OK on the new computer.
Should that work OK? Will I still be legally licensed and get Money
updates? Thanks for any help.