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I recently defragmented my hard disk and now MIDUSS does not work. What happended?

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I recently defragmented my hard disk and now MIDUSS does not work. What happended?

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Many tools exist to correct fragmentation of your hard drive. These work by moving the clusters comprising a file to be contiguous. If this operation causes the MIDUSS license authorization files to be moved you may lose the current authorization. The files created when you authorize MIDUSS98 are as follows: Miduss98.KEY Miduss98.ENT Miduss98.41S Miduss98.RST The Microsoft defragmentation programs that come with your Windows operating system will always recognize these files as ‘System’ files and will flag them as ‘unmovable’. However, other proprietary programs such as Norton SpeedDisk (version 6.0) and a defragmenter by ‘Nuts & Bolts’ (and possibly others) may require that you define the files as ‘unmovable’. In general, if you run a defragmenter on a regular basis, we recommend using the Microsoft version that comes with you operating system. If you are uncertain about the procedure you can prevent this from happening by transferring the license to another drive or another machine b

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