How do I restart trial periods for testing software?

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You know how when you get a program it might let you have a free trial
for a few days? Well when the trial is up is there a way to remove this
program completely, reinstall and then do the free trial again?

Uninstalling it and then installing it again doesnt work, the computer
can still remember my trial is up. Is there a file somewhere that
remembers this, that I can delete?

Thank you


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zepol

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There goes Carey, LYING AGAIN !
You don't need to reformat any damn thing!
Move your date back to the original date it was installed and reinstall it.
Then change your date.
Carey got caught in MORE W R O N G advice.

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Sorry, but your so-called "advice" is very poor and rarely works!

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"HelloAll" lamely wrote:

| There goes Carey, LYING AGAIN !
| You don't need to reformat any damn thing!
| Move your date back to the original date it was installed and reinstall it.
| Then change your date.
| Carey got caught in MORE W R O N G advice.

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That may work, but it depends on what your time is worth, too.

I've had to do that sort of search for programs when they've gotten
corrupted and wouldn't uninstall or reinstall, and it can be time consuming
and mind-numbing. And once you're in the brain-dead trance of search-delete,
it's easy to hit delete at the wrong time and kill something you need.

And while you're at it, there can also be files somewhere in the Windows
folder, or elsewhere, that have the installation info, so you never know if
you've gotten it all or not.

To fix a corrupted computer, it might be worth it, but to get an extra
30-day trial of software, it's a lot of work.

"peterk" <peterk@nomalarky.net> wrote in message
news:eSLvf$DfFHA.3256@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I haven't done this in a long while but..........
> after uninstalling the trial version open the registry and do a search
> under that programs name as well as manufacturer and delete whatever you
> find.This is assuming you have no other programs from that
> manufacturer.This used to work under 95/98/ME...not sure if it will under
> XP.
> peterk
>
> --
> It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much
> about the problem
> "zepol" <zepol.1rckdp@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
> news:zepol.1rckdp@pcbanter.net...
>>
>> You know how when you get a program it might let you have a free trial
>> for a few days? Well when the trial is up is there a way to remove this
>> program completely, reinstall and then do the free trial again?
>>
>> Uninstalling it and then installing it again doesnt work, the computer
>> can still remember my trial is up. Is there a file somewhere that
>> remembers this, that I can delete?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>> --
>> zepol
>
>

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which is of course why I haven't done this in a loooooong time
peterk

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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about
the problem
"D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3iebseFl48vdU1@individual.net...
> That may work, but it depends on what your time is worth, too.
>
> I've had to do that sort of search for programs when they've gotten
> corrupted and wouldn't uninstall or reinstall, and it can be time
> consuming and mind-numbing. And once you're in the brain-dead trance of
> search-delete, it's easy to hit delete at the wrong time and kill
> something you need.
>
> And while you're at it, there can also be files somewhere in the Windows
> folder, or elsewhere, that have the installation info, so you never know
> if you've gotten it all or not.
>
> To fix a corrupted computer, it might be worth it, but to get an extra
> 30-day trial of software, it's a lot of work.
>
> "peterk" <peterk@nomalarky.net> wrote in message
> news:eSLvf$DfFHA.3256@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>I haven't done this in a long while but..........
>> after uninstalling the trial version open the registry and do a search
>> under that programs name as well as manufacturer and delete whatever you
>> find.This is assuming you have no other programs from that
>> manufacturer.This used to work under 95/98/ME...not sure if it will under
>> XP.
>> peterk
>>
>> --
>> It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much
>> about the problem
>> "zepol" <zepol.1rckdp@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
>> news:zepol.1rckdp@pcbanter.net...
>>>
>>> You know how when you get a program it might let you have a free trial
>>> for a few days? Well when the trial is up is there a way to remove this
>>> program completely, reinstall and then do the free trial again?
>>>
>>> Uninstalling it and then installing it again doesnt work, the computer
>>> can still remember my trial is up. Is there a file somewhere that
>>> remembers this, that I can delete?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> zepol
>>
>>
>
>