9.1. Uninstalling Licensing Components

Before proceeding with the following steps to remove the Ansys licensing components from your system, make certain that there are no Ansys, Inc. products on this machine or any other machines on the network that rely on these Ansys licensing components.

License Servers   —  Follow these steps on a license server machine:

  1. Stop the Ansys, Inc. License Manager via the Ansys License Management Center.

  2. Uninstall the Ansys, Inc. License Manager service. You must use the following command to do so: 

    "C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\Shared Files\Licensing\<platform>\ansysli_server" 
     -k uninstall

  3. Delete the Licensing subdirectory.

  4. Remove the Ansys, Inc. License Manager folder from the Start menu.

  5. Remove the ANSYSLIC_DIR and the ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR environment variables, if set.

Clients  —  Follow these steps on client machines:

  1. Delete the Licensing subdirectory.

  2. Remove the Ansys 2024 R2> Ansys Client Licensing folder from the Start menu or from the Apps screen.