VEGAS 14 (and other magix products) activation error

SleepySage wrote on 11/17/2018, 6:33 PM

When all else fails, go to Google.

When Google fails, then you're in trouble.

Hi, I'm having an intensely annoying issue with activating Sony VEGAS 14 with a key I've gotten from Humble Bundle.

I've tried registering on the site, I've tried disabling every firewall I know of, and I've tried tinkering with my Internet Options.

I have previously activated this and other MAGIX programs but got my Windows 10 PC reset and had to reinstall them, now they won't activate -- please see the attachment for details

Please note that the activation key and email are accepted and match the account I have.

Here's another thing to note: The VEGAS trial code DOES WORK! Every other MAGIX product gets this problem now.

ESET and windows defender both disabled, and no dice.

I'd seriously love a speedy reply to this.

Comments

EricLNZ wrote on 11/17/2018, 7:40 PM

Presumably other internet connections work from the same machine?

Over what time period have you been trying? Possibly the Magix activation server is temporarily down.

SleepySage wrote on 11/17/2018, 8:27 PM

About 4 days ago is when I tried first, just did again today with no dice. I've been endlessly scrambling across google and the forums trying to find any sort of help -- I know other people had this problem but their firewalls were the key to success. Meanwhile that does not work over on my computer.

 

I do remember doing something with services.msc to get websites to load, which was right after the reset websites would never load and timeout. But, that change i've since forgotten and apparently allowed more access to the web than what I had before.

EricLNZ wrote on 11/17/2018, 8:39 PM

Obviously not the server but something on your system and its web interaction. Sorry cannot help as it's way beyond my knowledge.

SleepySage wrote on 11/18/2018, 9:16 PM

OK So... this was solved via performing a windows update. (october Win 10 1809)

I can't believe that solved it.

vkmast wrote on 11/19/2018, 2:55 AM

OK So... this was solved via performing a windows update. (october Win 10 1809)

I can't believe that solved it.

Troubleshooting tip #4 in this FAQ by Grandmaster Nick.

SleepySage wrote on 11/19/2018, 4:15 AM

About that... Windows update would not ever find an update (because apparently this october 2018 update was delayed to fix some file-deletion heckery or something like that, need to manually dig it up from Microsoft's site) and the troubleshooter wouldn't start either, initially I regarded these as separate problems and just took each issue on one by one with this being a separate issue.

Guess I was wrong, eh?

EricLNZ wrote on 11/19/2018, 4:48 AM

It takes time for major updates like 1809 to be available to everyone unlike normal monthly updates which are quickly available to all users. 1809 still isn't available to me if I check for updates but like you I could manually get it but I'm in no hurry. I guess the major update restored something on your system that had got stuffed up. Anyway glad you got it sorted.