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It should give you the option to transfer to a different PC - that's how most software works - allowing a fixed number of installations only (in this case: one), but not tied to the physical machine where it was first installed. Is that really so, or just according to Herr Freiwald?

That may be true, as long as you are on his good side. But buyer beware if you catch him on a bad day...

I'm not sure what the lesser evil is. Both ways have their drawbacks. Imagine that USB stick gives out during a train show... I myself was unfortunate enough to receive a defective USB Stick in 2020 (it was not recognized by any one of my four PCs). It was absolutely bizarre how Herr Freiwald handled the replacement procedure. As a result, I still to this day do not have a functioning USB-Stick. Having the option of license verification though the internet rather than the USB dongle would have saved me a lot of aggravation. Of course, it should be portable from one PC to another - I'm sure that is the case, as long as it only runs one instance at a time. It is still hard to wrap one's mind around why, with all the IT businesses that have figured out a customer-friendly way to keep track of their licensed users, TrainController makes it so hard for its clients to use the product - not to mention the most unaccommodating client service if something goes wrong.