Guy,
Just saw this, and basically I have had this problem "ALWAYS", been thru a number of computers, and thru every release of PADS
since I started using PADS back around just before ver 9.X. I have been thru a number of SR's with Mentor & even had one AE
write and send me a dos script to run to see if we could capture what was going on, no luck. I have just come to the conclusion to live with it.
It still happens now even running VX1.1, again it's not all that often but it still happens, like original poster sometimes I can just keep saying yes to questions
about lost license and it corrects itself, other times it can blow you out and you lose some work.
Interesting I run Cadence tools on this PC also & never seen that dongle lose its license. But recently have not actually even had the Cadence
dongle plugged into this computer any more & even a few weeks ago saw PADS dongle lose it's license.
This really has always been a problem with PADS license dongle from my standpoint, mentor support stated back a ways that not that many people have
this problem so I guess there isn't enough people complaining to really spend enough time looking under the hood.
Bob Wolfe