Reinstall Matlab - Unable to stop server

I am trying to reinstall matlab in a new location on my PC. I understand that i need to stop the License manager server in lmtools. When I try to stop the licence manager server I get an Error saying "Unable to Stop Server. Check the License search path and VD status.". I am using matlab 2020b

Answer 1

[Jestzer]

There are a few possibilites:

1. It's already stopped.
2. You tried making changes to before stopping it. You'll need to either kill the process from Task Manager/Activity Monitor/ps, depending on your computer's OS. If that's too difficult, restart your computer.

Answer 2

[Ruairi]

FIxed it myself, for anyone with similer issues my root problem was that there was an issue with my license