This document usually contains terms and conditions, restrictions, limitations, and disclaimers. A software license is a legal document produced by the software publishers or distributors that provides rules and guidelines on the usage and distribution of the software. Go to the services.msc and look for “FLEXnet Licensing Service” and “FLEXnet Licensing Service 64″. Start the service, then STOP the service – in that order. Once those services are stopped, delete those two files and start the services up again.Software license management (SLM) is the process of managing software licenses used throughout the organization from a single console.

Can’t delete the files? That means that the service that requires those files are still in use. Desktop). If that didn’t work, just delete the files. Please try giving Everyone full control permissions to the folder and move adskflex data files you find there to another folder (e.g. These files are encrypted files and basically keep activation information.

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataFLEXnetadskflex_00691b00_.

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataFLEXnetadskflex_00691b00_tsf.data.

C:ProgramDataFLEXnetadskflex_00691b00_.

C:ProgramDataFLEXnetadskflex_00691b00_tsf.data.

We’ve been seeing this also with 2012 software, especially software coming from new Building Design Suite. The standalone license file locations are here:

Softlock License Manager Errors were typically seen with the older version of AutoCAD products (releases older than 2008) and the typical cause of the error was restricted permissions on licensing folder or some corruption with the license file. Your support guy might also suggest a full uninstall of all Autodesk software. Yes, you can reformat your machine and make this error message go away. “The security system (softlock license manager) is not functioning or improperly installed.

License manager is not functioning