Systems With Multiple Users

Modern operating systems permit each user to have their own desktop, taskbar, and preferences. If you have an Institutional license for Lightwright, you can install the registered name, serial number, and approval code on specific computers, instead of having to install them for every user.

Windows

The LWAdmin.exe program can be used to store Lightwright registration information in the system registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. This will permit anyone using that computer to run Lightwright.

LWAdmin.exe is installed in the Lightwright folder as part of the normal setup.exe installation, and it is also available on this web site's downloads page. Note that Lightwright must be installed before LWAdmin.exe can be run, because LWAdmin.exe uses the same run-time modules as Lightwright. Institutional registration information should NOT be entered into Lightwright if you use LWAdmin.exe

Use of LWAdmin.exe is self-explanatory, you can use it to store Lightwright registration information as well as remove it. The user running LWAdmin.exe must have administrative privileges, and LWAdmin.exe can only install Institutional licenses.

Macintosh OSX

Log in as a user with Administrator privileges.

Install Lightwright 4 by dragging the Lightwright folder onto the target Mac's hard drive.

First, we need to make Lightwright create a registration file. To do that, run Lightwright and enter the required licensing information including the institutional serial number, registered name, and approval code. Quit Lightwright.

Find and open the Lightwright folder within the user's Preferences folder (Home->Library->Preferences->Lightwright). Inside that folder is a file named "Lightwright 4 Registration.regi" (the .regi may not show, depending on your settings). Drag the "Lightwright 4 Registration.regi" file to the desktop. DO NOT option-drag it, as you do NOT want a copy of it left in the user's preferences folder!

Drag the "Lightwright 4 Registration.regi" file from the desktop into the computer's Application Support folder, which is normally found on the computer's hard drive inside the Library folder.

If you have multiple computers, you can drag copies of the "Lightwright 4 Registration.regi" file into each computers' Application Support folder. Do NOT enter the registration information into each computer by running Lightwright unless you have an Individual registration.

That's it!

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