[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 March 2007]
Is there any way to bypass the UI for the AcuCorp license activator? We're currently using the 7.0.1 version.We've got a little VB program that we use in-house to bundle license files for our customers. It executes the activator, sends keystrokes to fill in the product code and key fields (the data is parsed from a text file) and click 'finish', then it bundles the license file created by the activator with our product license file. It's been working gracefully for 3 or 4 years now, but in the last few months we've been experiencing problems where the activator window remains open, which causes the process to fail with a fatal error because the AcuCorp license file doesn't exist when it tries to bundle the license files. I have a suspicion that the issue is related to OS or IE security patches or updates. It works fine on a workstation with IE6, but not IE7. I haven't been able to confirm whether users are getting something like a Windows 'publisher could not be verified' error, but I figure something else has to be receiving the keystrokes that are being sent.
Running the activator without the UI, passing the product code and key as parameters, would be the best solution to the problem. However, I can't find any documentation on the activator and when I run 'activator.exe -' it returns the error 'invalid parameter line.'
