"Alex McFarlane" <alex@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Dear All,
>I find the limitation of only 3 users in a onecare circle to be irksome. I
>currently have 3 computers at home but 2 children are returning next week
>from boarding school and are bringing their laptops with them. I purchased
>onecare because NAV was useless with vista and felt that a microsoft product
>would be tailor made to run with microsoft OS's. Can the 3 computer limit be
>extended? If so, how?
>If not, can the cicle function be turned off but leaving the antivirus and
>defender functions running? All I want to run at home is a simple peer to
>peer network.
>Thanks for your help
>AMcF
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At this time it is up to 3 PCs on one subscription and only one subscription per
LiveID.
There was talk about being able to purcase more licenses to add to a base
subscription, but nothing further has been announced. I don't know if this is a
Billing system limitation.
The Circle functions include Centralized backup - optional - and printer
sharing, which can be turned off on the Printer Sharng tab on each PC running
OneCare.
If no PC has been promoted to be a hub, the above are the only Circle functions
and they can all be turned off. A Circle is defined as all PCs activated with
the same LiveID - on the same subscription.
You can turn off backup, you can disable Printer Sharing, but the rest of
OneCare is not optional.
-steve
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