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Blocking or Extending Evaluation Period for a Software

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by uppulurivasu

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Hi Friends,

Are there any tools for blocking or extending the evaluation periods for some of the fully functional softwares.

Thanks in Advance.

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by older mycroft

If you want to 'extend' your trial period the best method is first to do the following BEFORE the trial period ends.

1 Uninstall the trial installation.
2 Use regedit to track every entry related to the trial. - This has to take TWO forms, entries for the name of the software package and entries for the name of the software publisher.
3 Once you are certain you have eradicated ALL trace of the trial from the registry - reinstall the trial again.
4 Repeat step one a couple of days before the trial finishes.

The reason for uninstalling a couple of days before the trial finishes is that if you wait until it expires, the software will leave a 'stamp' on the harddrive to say that it's already been there. This 'stamp' has usually proved elusive to me in the past.

by uppulurivasu

Hi,

Your option is a Hectic Process but I am searching for any such type of tools which can create a pseudo file of the actual executable and just before the pseudo file is executed you need to just change your system time to some previous time both at OS & BIOS Levels.

If you have any idea on such type of technology please let me know.
Thanks.
Srini

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