Statistica Error, "Academic Rental configuration error"

Statistica Error, "Academic Rental configuration error"

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Article ID: KB0080848

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Products Versions
Spotfire Statistica 13.0 and above.

Description

User opens Statistica academic bundle but cannot use it because of this configuration error occurs:

Academic Rental configuration error

Cause: Only know cause at this time is if the system clock was changed (either back in time or forward in time) and then the time was changed back to the correct time. 

Issue/Introduction

This article discusses the Statistica Error, "Academic Rental configuration error" and the steps to resolve it.

Environment

Windows operating systems only.

Resolution

Try to find the files that were changed in Windows to a new day and time and then use the Attribute Changer to change the date and time to the correct day and time.  See  Using FileFinder to resolve Statistica Error: "System Clock has been set back" 

ALTERNATIVE METHOD:

1. Open Windows Explorer (Right click on your "Start" menu and select "Explore").
2. Right click on Local Disk C: and choose Search. Note: If you have multiple drives including mapped drives you will also need to search these.
3. In the field "All or part of the file name" enter *.* (which means all files)
4. Select the "When was it modified?" option and click "Specify dates". Enter today's date in the From field. In the "To" field enter a date one year from now.
5. Select Search
6. In the results pane, click on the "Date Modified" column header to sort the files by date.
7. Look for ANY files or folders with a date/time in the future.
8. For each file with a date/time combination greater than current, right click on it and choose properties, then click on the Summary tab and then click OK. This should reset the modified date to the current date.