I could not deactivate Trados 2021 Freelancer Plus offline

Hi 

I have a Trados 2021 Freelancer Plus and I need to move it to a new Windows 11 computer as the Windows 10 is no longer supported. But I could not deactivate online so I tried to do it offline.

But when I followed the instruction to deactivate offline, there are no options or available button to click to create a "Deactivation Authorization". I did this once and I remembered you have the option to create a "Deactivation Authorization". But now it only shows two previous "Deactivation Certificate". There are no options to create a new one.

So I reset the license and I only found out that one of the older "Deactivation Certificate" disappered. The most recent one is still there. There is still no option to create a new "Deactivation Authorization". I understand I need to copy this new "Deactivation Authorization" to Trados and create a "Deactivation Certificate", then confirm in my RWS account. But so far I could not find any button or option to create "Deactivation Authorization". I am not sure what I can do after reset though.

I copied the current/old "Deactivation Authorization" into Trados and it was not recognized.

Thanks for the help

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  • Hi again.

    You have one license for SDL Trados Studio 2021 Freelance Plus - this entitles you to two activation fulfilments, meaning you can activate it on two computers. But it's the same license, not two separate ones.

    Currently, you have one activation fulfilment in use and one free

    A table showing license usage with columns labeled Users, In Use, and Available. Users column shows 1 and 1 with an asterisk. In Use column shows 1 and 0 in green. Available column shows 0 and 1 in green.

    If you just activated it on the Windows 11 laptop, I suggest you check the version installed on Windows 10, it might need activations too - since the license was reset. There is no need to deactivate it on the Win11 laptop.

    Kind regards,

    Anca

    Anca Stoian RWS Group

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    [edited by: RWS Community AI at 7:22 PM (GMT 0) on 17 Nov 2025]
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