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I have recently built a new Desktop PC to take Win 11 - In doing so I have had to do a re-installation of ADE9X )still had the installed download on disk!) - I now have ADEX OK but I previously had a Prokey which I no longer appear to have (noticed lack of "hide object" function first!). Can I recover this and, if so, how do I go about it?
 
As I remember ADE became freeware and final release had a ProKey supplied for all to use ... try downloading it from the "Resources" link at the top of the page and see if that works.

Alternatively :- from a download of ADE I archived, but never got around to familiarising myself with :


The ProKey is available is now free of charge. It will need a key when the evaluation period runs out:

Name: ade_prokey

Key: 4160-2EE1-C226-E407-88DB-22CE-6782-6A1C

Trust this helps.
 
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Thanks for the response - I reloaded ADE using the Installer file I obtained when ADE 1.75 came out, and then it got the update to 1.76, but that must not have got the "key included' version.
I'll do a new download and, by what you've told me, that should solve it.
I miss the 'hide' function particularly because, over the years, I have built or modified a lot of airfields, and many have exclusions etc that were hidden before but now overlap other stuff and I can't hide them again!

Thanks again - Blue skies always!
Geoff
 
The ProKey is not shipped as part of the base installation. There is a separate download which was referred to above. After you install ADE then install the ProKey and use the free credentials to activate it
 
Thanks for that, Jon.
I've downloaded the ProKey download OK and written the 2 folders into my already-installed ADEX 1.78.7298, but when I start up ADE I'm not getting the dialogue box mentioning the trial period!
Do I need to do another fresh installation of the ADE 1.78 to get this to work?
 
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The installation instructions for the ProKey said to copy the 2 folders downloaded into main ADE directory and overwrite when asked.
 
I have also separately installed the 1.79 dev version, and copied the 'plugins' and 'manuals' folders into that version's main directory. On startup of ADE179 I now get an error on loading - see attached screenshot
 

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Hi again Gary,

OK, I've got it at last. Unblocked the .dll's OK and started up ADE179 - Request dialogue for registering came up and I entered the info Chris Eve gave me in the first reply to this post. All was accepted and I'm back in "Pro" business!
Thanks to all for the help!
A Happy New Year to all and may all your flights be wonderful!

GD
 
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