Denford Software & Machines

Posted: **Tue 21 Mar , 2006 15:06 pm**

After i install VR Milling Ver2.** i get the message "Dongle not found" when trying to run the software

Posted: **Tue 21 Mar , 2006 15:15 pm**

Initially the VR Milling Ver 2 software only ran if a Dongle with the correct attributes (MILLER32) was located in the parallel port of the PC. If the dongle was not present then the message "Dongle not found" would be displayed.

Later developments in the protection of the software allowed FLASH CODES, these codes were on a 3-1/2" floppy titled "Registration Disc" and the appropriate box ticked for VR Milling.

The sequence that the software used, was to look for a Dongle first, if it did not find one, it would then look for a flash code and if it did not find a flash code it would display the "Dongle not found" error message. It really should have been "Dongle/Flash code not found".

Therefore you only need to put the "Registration Disc" in the drive, navigate to the contents of A Drive and double click the FLASH.EXE file and it will install the Flash code

Posted: **Fri 24 Nov , 2006 15:59 pm**

Alternatively (or if the FLASH.EXE doesn't work)...

go to the location of the file flash.ini

double click this file (it should open up in Notepad)

press CTRL-A to SELECT all the text

press CTRL-C to COPY the text

close notepad

go to c:\program files\denford\vrmilling

double click on windmill.ini (to open in notepad again)

double check there are not already entries for FLASH_USER or FLASH_CODE - if there are, then delete them

then at the top of the file, press enter to create a blank line

press CTRL-V to Paste the text in

your ini file should now look like this....

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[FLASH]
Ini_File=Windmill.ini
Flash_User=some school, someplace, UK
Flash_Code=R44N-HC8X-AT4T-3FGN-G9DR-62U8


[directories]
machine list file=C:\Program Files\Denford\VRMilling\machine list.ini
XNC Folder=C:\Denford\Data\

Denford Software & Machines

Dongle not found (VR Milling Ver 2.**)

Dongle not found (VR Milling Ver 2.**)