For the workshop owner, the message is clear. While workarounds exist to soothe the dongle error, the industry is steadily marching toward a future where hardware keys are extinct, replaced by cloud verification that works seamlessly—until, of course, the internet goes down.
Rarely, a genuine dongle’s firmware can become corrupted. If the dongle undergoes a failed firmware update (some dongles auto-update when connected to the internet), its internal hardware ID might change or become unreadable. For the workshop owner, the message is clear
Are you seeing any specific alongside this message, or did this happen immediately after a Windows update ? For the workshop owner