Activating BibleWorks 8, 9 or 10

[kingmontez]

I recently had to replace my computer. I need to place BW10 on my new computer. I have the thumb drive and tried the activation code on the quick start guide and it did not work. I have submitted an email as directed. My BW10 was an upgrade from BW8. Will this process work for installing on my new computer?

John Bracamontes

[FredericaMG]

I appreciate any help you can give me, Mike. I was not able to use my disks, because the new Surface Pro won't consistently recognize an external DVD drive.

But I was able to copy the BW folder on my desktop PC onto a flash drive and transfer it to the Surface.
This PC was new last summer and you helped me set up BW on it.

In this folder find two .exe files.

The one named bw900.exe asks for my email address and serial number (activation number, I assume), but always tells me that one of them is wrong.
I know the email is right, and I repeatedly checked the serial number and it is correct. Stymied.

The one named 9.0.12.860-bw900lg.exe says I'm missing PATCHW32.dll, zlib1.dll, Unzip32.dll, and SSCE55532.dll. I don't know what to do about that.

Thanks for your patience with me.

[admin]

Frederika,
Simply copying the BW folder from one PC to another will not work. The setup program must be used. I have used an external CD drive on the Surface Pro. Alternatively you could copy the CD files to a thumb drive.
Mike

[brywkeo]

Thank you Mike for the files you sent me. So very much appreciated. I was able to activate BibleWorks, v.10 and all of my purchases. I am in the process of moving from Windows to Linux Mint. In the process I discovered I would lose BibleWorks - not acceptable. I installed Oracle VirtualBox and created a Windows 11 Pro VM, within which I installed BibleWorks. Everything works just fine. I get to dump Windows and keep BibleWorks, all the while on my Linux Mint PC. You made this possible. Again, 'thank you'.

[FredericaMG]

Thank you, Mike! It is working now.
I could have done it more quickly if I knew more about computers. So great to see the familiar BW icon in my taskbar.
God bless you!

[Pleif]

Hi,

Thank you so much for helping us still beeing able to use this brilliant software!
I am from Denmark and have been using it since BW6.

How long time should I expect for the reply to arrive to me? I sent my request on March 11 but haven't recieved a reply yet.
(It is neither in quarantined mails nor the spam folder).

This is what I sent:

From: Peter Leif Mostrup Hansen <pleif@pleif.dk>
Sent: 11. marts 2026 10:39
To: 'reactivation@bibleworks.com' <reactivation@bibleworks.com>
Subject: BW10-7YV4-HKMA-####-#### Peter Hansen

(Last 8 letters changed to hashtags in this post - NOT in the mail).

Thanks,
Peter Hansen

[kingmontez]

I sent a request for reactivation on a new computer on March 11th. My old computers battery is going out. However, I have not received an email. It seems everything is correct. How can we go forward.

Thanks

John Bracamontes (kingmontez@yahoo.com)

[admin]

I sent a request for reactivation on a new computer on March 11th. My old computers battery is going out. However, I have not received an email. It seems everything is correct. How can we go forward.

Thanks

John Bracamontes (kingmontez@yahoo.com)

A response was sent on 3/11. Check your spam folder. If it is not there you can resubmit the request.

[kingmontez]

On march 11 I sent a request for reactivation but have not yet received a reply. I assume I have formatted the request incorrectly but after checking it everything seems ok. What should I do to go forward.

John Bracamontes kingmontez@yahoo.com

[kingmontez]

I did receive an email on March 11 confirming my registration but I have not received anything concerning reactivation. I have checked my spam. Should I resubmit a request for the code.

Thanks

John Bracamontes