Close the Registry Editor window and open a File Explorer window. By itself, RunAsDate. The malicious software can be bundled with the RunAsDate. When you uninstall a program, it often leaves those registry settings in place. Come back some time later to install the program again. If your first day trial period is expired, you can extend it yourself as described above, and things will be business as usual. Just sign in to the demonstration company and start the Extend Trial Period guide from the notification.
All you have to do is take a snapshot of your Windows Registry before you install the trial for the first time. Then install and use the trial, and when the time period runs out, uninstall it, then restore the Registry to the saved values it had before the trial. However, note that this has the potential of getting your PC into a confused state, as any other changes that other programs have logged to the Registry in the meantime will also be lost.
If the software uses a registry key to track trial installations, then this should work around that. Sandboxing is another useful way to trial new software, as it creates a secure location to install the program within.
One of the best-known sandbox programs is Sandboxie. Not only is it free, it is also very good at what it does. My final tip for reinstalling trial software after the free trial has ended is to use a virtual machine. These are useful in many different situations, but when it comes to trialing new applications they really shine. Not only do they prevent the software from messing with your main operating system, they also prevent any security issues and can be quickly deleted and reinstalled to keep any trial running for as long as you need it to.
Free VM software such as VirtualBox is ideal for this. Create a VM, install an operating system, and set everything up. Take a copy of the image you just created, install the trial software, use it, delete the VM image, and replace it with the copy. Or does that not really affect anything?
Your email address will not be published. Read Next. January 5, at am. How is that possible? Where would it be storing the information? I even turned off wifi so that it could not look at an external database. John Vankal says:. May 3, at am. Use Run as Date and Time Stopper software for trial reset. As mentioned by the author, you can also make registry backup export , install trial software, change date to expire, and export the registry again.
You can bypass this by changing your MAC address there are many software to do that which will do the trick. But, FYI you can bypass that by changing your hard disk. Zoardyeck says:. March 31, at am. Guilherme says:. February 10, at pm. Going to try these methods. Jeva says:. It simply cleans the registry keys generated by the protectors which are normally not removed even after uninstalling the software.
This is how a lot of shareware knows you have no trial period left, even if you uninstall and re-install the program again. Trial-Reset is very easy to use. To start scanning, simply click on the All located at the bottom left. The scanning will take a while since some of the methods require scanning the hard drive.
The right pane will show all the detected keys that are used by any shareware titles. You can backup, view or delete the keys, add to protect or auto cleaning list from the right click context menu.
If you have a lot of shareware installed, there will be quite a number of results and you will need to do a trial and error to find the key that is associated with the software that you want to reset the trial period. Download Trial-Reset 4. I was watching things on YouTube earlier and saw a bunch of people messing with reverse engineering and debugging with OllyDbg, for example. People can waste months in that thing ending up in nothing. And the example you said that the info is stored on the servers, like MAC address, current IP and other hardware ID stuff that might lead you to a dead-end trying to crack software which you actually will have a lot of work and in a few updates your cracking method is gone if published widely.
Thanks for sharing. Hi, Did you find any solution. What runasdate does it adds configs to launch as previous date Which it writes on shortcut. But now when try to open the shortcut the application wont launch. Any help? Does this application — Trial Reset — remove the hidden files of Articulate Storyline? Can it detect and remove the keys etc and allow reinstallation of trial software?
There is zero reason to ever download, trial, or worse pay for winzip. Winzip has a different feature set to 7-Zip and they are certainly not equal. If others want to pay for or use Winzip, they are perfectly entitled to do so. Thank a billion! It perfectly works for most of my trial software.
Raymon for giving us info about this amazing software.
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