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What is Whole Home License

The Whole Home License® is iolo technologies’ licensing policy that allows you to install and keep your software running on all of your compatible devices within the same home. Previously, users were allowed to install and license their iolo software simultaneously on a maximum of three PCs. Under the Whole Home License, a single activation key allows you to use your iolo software on all of your PCs, other than any PCs you use for business purposes.

What is Spam and How Do I Stop It?

Nobody likes spam, the digital version of junk mail. Just as no one particularly cares for unsolicited envelopes and flyers in their traditional mailbox, the digital form is no less irritating. Deleting one or two spam emails might not be that big of a deal, but what about handling countless amounts of spam every single day? In this article, we look at what spam is and the best ways to reduce and even stop spam from wasting your time.

What is Hard Drive Shredding?

Hard drive shredding vs hard drive scrubbing software programs. Discover the differences and what may be more suitable in protecting your data.

What is a Registry Cleaner?

Every Windows PC has a database filled with preferences, settings, services, secreting accounts manager, and more. All low-level settings for the Windows operating system can start to accumulate as time goes on. The database is known as the registry, and while Windows continues to make improvements on the registry, a registry cleaner makes sense as part of a maintenance routine.

What Are PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) – Is your computer a foreign agent?

Is your computer doubling as a foreign agent? Well, it might not literally be working for a hostile foreign power, but it could be unknowingly harboring deceptive programs masquerading as helpful antivirus or cleanup tools that, in reality, only slow down or harm your computer.

PC Control Tower Glitches: What’s Going On?

Imagine an air traffic controller trying to be efficient with inaccurate data. Because airport reliability is utterly dependent upon tightly synchronized information, even small errors could quickly ignite a chain of arrival and departure delays, wrong gate assignments, and schedule-stopping airport security alarms.

Tips to Optimize Your PC’s Internet Settings

Get the Most From What You’ve Got: Your computer system isn’t the same as everyone else’s, so why use the same internet settings? Generic Internet connection settings can hold you back from getting the download speeds you deserve. Optimize your Internet settings with System Mechanic’s NetBooster.

Tips on Telework – a guide for better video calls

If you’re fortunate enough to work from home during the crucial curve-flattening phase of the coronavirus, you’ll undoubtedly notice some rules changes—some subtle, some not so subtle. To get the most out of your new status as a member of a distributed workforce, you may want to keep the following tips in mind.

Three Major Problems with Passwords Solved by ByePass Password Manager

Stop thinking up, remembering and typing passwords with ByePass secure password and credit card manager, available in iolo Phoenix 360™.

The Story Behind an Entirely New Approach to PC Responsiveness

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What is iolo's Whole Home License?

The Whole Home License® is iolo’s licensing policy that allows you to install and keep your software running on all of your compatible devices within the same home. Previously, users were allowed to install and license their iolo software simultaneously on a maximum of three PCs. Under the Whole Home License, a single activation key allows you to use your iolo software on all of your PCs, other than any PCs you use for business purposes. What you need to know about Whole Home Licensing

  • You, your spouse, and your relatives living within the same household may use the same license on any number of PCs that you own which are not used for business.
  • For full legal terms and conditions, see https://www.iolo.com/company/legal/eula/

To install your iolo product on additional PCs:

  1. On the additional computer, download the latest version of your iolo product. Choose from the list of downloads offered here.
  2. Follow the steps in the installation wizard, and enter the same Activation Key that you used to install on your original computer.

You can view the Activation Key on the original computer from within System Mechanic > red menu bar > key icon > Activation Key.