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Yellow Tools Key Manager - for Mac OS X & Windows XP/Vista


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To give you full control over your Authorization Key we developed the Yellow Tools Key Manager. This software is available as Mac OS X preference panel in your System Preferences and as Windows XP/Vista application and enables you to exercise the following options:

  • Status of the Key and updates:
  • You get a read out of all products currently available on your Keys. Should there be an update for your Authorization Key software, you can update your Key immediately.
  • Activation of additional products via entering an Activation Code:
  • If you have purchased a new yellow tools product that includes an Activation Code, you can enter this code here and activate your new product on your Authorization Key.
  • Moving of authorizations between multiple Keys:
  • If you own multiple Authorization Keys, you can move certain authorizations to the Key of your choice. This way you have the ability to use our products with greater flexibility among multiple work spaces.
  • If you do not want to program your Key online, you can also program the Key manually.

Programming the Key online is not in any way connected to the computer where you are installing our products; the Key can be managed on any MAC OS X or WINDOWS XP/VISTA computer you might have, providing it has a USB port, internet connection and you installed the Yellow Tools Key Manager.

Watch the Key Manager video tutorial to get an impression how easy and fast you can manage your product licenses with this software. Simply click on the format icon to start streaming the video in your webbrowser. If you want to download the video onto your computer please click on the format icon with the right mouse button.

Activation & Key Manager (4'03")

Apple QuickTime (*.mov) Windows Media (*.WMV)

1.) Key Pull-Down:
Pull-down menu that includes all currently connected Yellow Tools Authorization Keys.
The Key Manager always reads out the currently selected key.

2.) Product Column:
List of all products that are currently saved on the selected Yellow Tools Authorization Key.

3.) Company Column:
List of manufacturers of the products.

4.) Status Column:
Shows the current status of each product. At the moment there are four different status types:

  • "activated": The product is usable without any restrictions.
  • "... starts left": The product is connected with a counter. When expired the product can not be used anymore.
  • "expires in ... days": The product is connected to an expiration date. When expired the product can not be used anymore.
  • "has expired": The product has expired and can not be used anymore.

5.) Product Activation (online connection required!):
In this area you can activate additional products on the selected Authorization Key. For any activation you need an "Activation Code". If the product you purchased first has to get activated on your Authorization Key, you will find this Code on your registration card.´

6.) Product Movement (online connection required!):
If you have several Yellow Tools Authorization Keys you can here move your products between these Keys at will.

7.) "Update Key" button (online connection required!):
If there is an update for your Authorization Key available just click this button to start the online update.

8.) "Register Product" button (online connection required!):
This button will launch your web browser and load the yellow tools website where you can register your products.

9.) "Options" button:
If your computer should require any custom proxy settings for the online connection of the Yellow Tools Key Manager you can enter these details in the Options  area.

10.) "Save Key File (RTC)" button:
If you do not want to make use of the online programing options of the Yellow Tools Key Manager you can also manage your Key manually. This button reads out the Key information into a file.

11.) "Load Key File (RTU)" button:
RTU files contain the updated Key information you will receive from yellow tools. This button loads the new information on your Key.

12.) "Refresh" button:
Click this button to refresh the Key Manager if you connected/disconnected Authorization Keys during your session.




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