When you reconfigure your desktop or activate your QuickBooks for the first time, you may encounter with the QuickBooks Error 3371 , Status Code 11118. This error can be a frustrating one for you, as it disallows you to open your QB file.You can understand it in a way that Intuit makes it compulsory to have license information stored on your hard drive. By any mean, if that information, file, or license data get corrupted, damaged or missing; you can encounter this error code.