[@Nick H]
Thank you – your suggestion worked to activate the software. However, you may have immediately noticed on start-up of the program that there’s a new version released and that the notification says Current version is 11.8.0.0 and the Latest version available is: 12.5.0.0 and then the link https://www.easeus.com/download/partition-manager.html is provided – and which upon visiting the page does not display the appropriate version of the software.
So, what have we here? The previous version of the software given away ‘Free’ and no availability of the latest version.
This doesn’t seem like an honest approach – Ashraf, you should deter vendors who take users for granted and do such kind of offers which seem unfair.