How to delete the information from PC.

[amarg]

Hi,

I installed a trial version of the software.
And now it's already expired. I did the uninstall of that software from add/remove program.

Now i insalled the new version of that software and at the time of launch, getting a error of "your trail version is already expired".

It means still my pc having the information from the old version.
I run the regedit and deleted all the entries related to this software.

Please let me know where else these software are storing the information.

Regards,
Amar

 

[Madawc]

I assume it is a trick to stop anyone repeatedly using the software for a 'trial version'. If it shouldn't be doing this, tell the vendor.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia)

 

[UKalliance]

can you roll the system back to before you uninstalled the software? If so, can you not then install the new software as an upgrade rather then having to remove the trial software?

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[gbaughma]

Not to be dense here, but trial version of WHAT software?

Personally, if I was going to write software that was a trial version only, I wouldn't do the following:

o Put a registry key in identifying the install date
o Put in a hidden file

... instead I would do something like:
o Use a few bytes at the tail-end of the sector marked for the MBR and put the date there.

Sneaky, huh? You wouldn't be able to find it without a hex editor that could directly read hard drive sectors.

But, that's just the way I think.



Just my $0.02

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