Can't activate Cubase 12 Elements. Activation manager says no internet connection

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Activation Manager: "No internet connection" - which is wrong

Cubase 12 Pro, Win 10 I’m trying to activate a Cubase 12 Pro Lincense in the Activation Manager (AM) on Win 10 on a PC with a working Internet Connection. AM reports the license can not be activated because of a missing internet connection. However, there is a working Internet Connection. What is working: Activating the License on a different PC in the same LAN Segment (with one difference i will explain below) Manual Activation using the Import Feature So, as a fact, AM’s assessement that …

Activation Manager cannot see active internet connection

Oh. You’re on Windows? There’s also a dir with settings (or something) in Local. You’re not giving much in the way of details, so I’ll mention to change the default browser, preferably one that’s in initialized state. But maybe this is not a Steinberg software probelm.

Activation problems - suddenly internet connection needed

This is what was communicated. Therefore I was suprised the activation was inactive, while it worked the day before without any problems. This PC was not on the Internet and WL refused to start. Only after re-establishing the internet connection I was able to use WL again, as described above. IMO this shouldn’t be necessary - there was no change in hardware or anything else. A clarification from other Steinberg guys about what is going on in this regards would be very appreciated.