Posted by David McCall on 01/01/08 23:39

Actually I do know what a dongle is,
but I was in dehial that an Alladin had a dongle.

Well I cleaned the dongle and it worked.
Unfortunately it only ran for a few minutes
before the software froze up.

I guess there is more than one issue.

Happy New Year
David



"nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote in message
news:381f9a6f-c916-479b-b18a-ee92fa779192@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> No, the dongle is a little plug with a tiny circuit board inside it,
> typically screwed into the printer port on the back of your PC that
> hosts the Alladin software. Remove it carefully, clean the contacts on
> the connector area, re-seat it and hope that fixes the problem. If a
> dongle breaks down your software is locked out, dead, and I don't know
> if Pinnacle has any spares left to send to users, or even if they
> would.

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