It varies from software. NI seems to be less bothered by it. IK use to be touchy but no issues this time. I use to dislike Waves Central but it has a fix for such things. I upgraded everything but kept the Windows drive as is since the difference would be changing out the chipset since they both were Intel. In this case Pace without the dongle was the major annoyance. BTW their support is top notch. I use to despise the dongle but not anymore.
The iLok 3 is even more smaller than iLok2.