Demo Software

[Hardnotty]

You know when you download software that works for 30 days.... and after that time, you uninstall and attempt to reinstall again, but the software knows that it's already be done? How's that work? I think that when you uninistall, it must leave an entry in the computer registry so that when it reinstalls, it sees that entry and knows that you are trying to do install again.

Any ideas?

Also, if this is true (updating the registry), is there a way to take a snapshot of the registry before you install and one after you install and compare the two to determine what's changed.... so you know what to manually delete to make the reinstall think it's installing for the first time.

Thanks for any help.

[repoman]

there are hidden .dll files that the software leaves instlled after the uninstall, you need to isolate the files and delete them before you can reinstall the software.

[Scooby111]

You can use software like Norton Ghost. Take a snaphot of your whole computer just before you update. Making the snapshot takes awhile, but once made you can restore the snapshot in just a few minutes.

This is also useful for backing up your harddrive.....

[bobydigatl]

Or you could find a crack for the prog and not worry about it. (I'm a well rounded pirate):)

[PackerBacker]

LOL, actually most just make a registry entry, lets say you have a 30 day demo of pacman by atari vision. type regedit, press f3 type in pacman and delete all entries it finds, then search for atari vision and delete all of those also, works 99% of the time.

[Hardnotty]

Originally posted by bobydigatl
Or you could find a crack for the prog and not worry about it. (I'm a well rounded pirate):)

Actually, tried that already.... but couldn't find it. Looking for a crack for ScorePAD. It's a PC/Palm software that allows you to score baseball games. I'm the scorekeeper for my son's team and I don't want have to calculate that #$@!$ stats.

If you have any tools or sites to help with cracking, PM me.

You can see the software at triple w scorepad dot com

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On the hidden .DLL, where would they put that? The directory it installed was deleted and I have my explore set to display hidden files. Would they put it in the windows directory?

[smin]

Yes the .dll files go in your windows directory...but when you do a complete uninstall of a program it should delete those. So I'm guessing it something in your registry.