https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41350
--- Comment #9 from David dav75uk@yahoo.co.uk --- Now seeing the following on the console
wine: Read access denied for device L"\??\Z:\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
- this might explain the message 'the serial number is not valid' as the feedback to the activation check. Fixing this might allow activation, but it also might prevent running the application if there are other problems with registration still to fix.
Any thoughts on fixing this?