Extend or Reset Trial Period of Trial Demo Software
A lot of software and applications are released as a shareware, also known as demoware (demo) or trialware (trial version), where users can download the trial version shareware from the Internet or get the apps from distributed magazine cover-disks, and use it for a stipulated period of time (trial period), free or charge without any payment. The plan is sort of “try before you buy”, where if users satisfy with the software after trying it, they should buy the program by paying a license fee to the developer. After passing the trial expiry date and time (expiry of trial period), the software will either stop working, or continue working with limited or restricted features, or displays a reminder message about expired trial demo license.
So what if you want to extend the duration of the trial period of the demo apps to fully evaluate it? Or you have installed the demo software or shareware, but suddenly busy with works or something else, and when finally free, the trial valid date has passed? Or you may be decided that the shareware is not worth to pay? The solution or workaround is to extend or reset the trial apps expiry date and time, or its trial period, so that users can continue to using the trial shareware without crack or hack.
How to extend or reset the trial period of shareware, trial-ware, demo-ware or trial software?
Method 1
Reinstall the program. This is the easiest method, but highly likely that it won’t work mostly on current modern software, as the expiry check algorithm getting sophisticated by keeping the expiry information on started using date and days allowed for try use plus days left in the trial in the registry or in a randomly named file.
Method 2
Adjusting the clock (date and time) of your computer system before starting installation of trial software to future data, or adjusting the clock to past date after expired trial period. Again, this method most likely won’t work.
Method 3
Use a application installation monitoring software or uninstaller software such as Norton Cleansweep, Your Uninstaller! 2006 and Advanced Uninstaller PRO 2006 to keep track and monitor every changes to the system during installation, and then uninstall and revert the shareware completely to remove all traces of trial expiry data.
Method 4
Backup the registry before installation of software, and restore the registry after trial period passed. Only works on those shareware that store protection information in registry, and you will lose some important registry changes by Windows or other applications. Alternatively, use Regmon to monitor registry activity in real-time to identify possible candidates for trial expiry reg keys, and then delete those keys.
Method 5
Reinstall windows, and you can be sure that you can use all trial demo shareware again, as all dummy registry entries and dummy files that store trial information are wiped off.
Method 6
Find a crack, with the help of cracks search engine such as Astalavista. But this is not extending the trial period of software.
Method 7
Search with various search engines such as Google and Yahoo! for application-specific known workarounds.
Method 8
If you use any of the following software, then Trial-Reset can helps you to extend the trial period of the software. Trial-Reset is an registry cleaning tool (it claims it’s not a crack) that removes the keys generated by commercial and freeware protector of trial period, and hence makes the software as if just freshly installed. It actually automates the process of cleaning up the registry key related to trial expiry mentioned above. The software and its protected that Trial-Reset (version 3.0 RC3) supports and able to strips are as below.
ACProtect
ActiveMark
Armadillo
ASProtect
DBPE
EncryptPE
Enigma
ExeCryptor
ExeShield
ICE License
NoCopy
Obsidium
OneWay
Orien
PCGuard
ProtectionPlus
ProtectShareware
SafeSerial
SDProtector
Sheriff
SGLicense
ShareGuard
SoftLocx
SoftSentry
SoftWrap
STProtector
SVKP
Thinstall
VBOLock
VBox
VisualProtect
Xheo Licensing
XProtector
ZipWorx
To use Trial-Reset, just select which software protector that you want to scan for existance on the right hand side of the window. If the registry of the protector is found, make sure you you review the key to ensure that it’s the correct key that stores trial information. Then you can opt to backup the key, remove the key, add the key to protect list and other options.
Trial-Reset 3.0 RC3 can be downloaded here (Trial-Reset30RC2.rar | Warning: Some users reported that the file is infected with virus. Use at your own risk). It has been upgraded to new version. Future update can be found here.
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December 26th, 2007 02:37
or you can install the software in the virtual machine,take a snapshot and revert to that snapshot whenever the trial period expires.
December 25th, 2007 11:22
another way : use vmware or virtualbox and install trial soft inside it. When it expires, just remove ur virtual machine, start a new one.. or reset ur virtual machine to the state before u installed and install again!
December 23rd, 2007 06:23
The link for the “trial-reset” soft is trojan.
Admin you should see twice what link you put to your blog..i think!
BYE..!!
December 4th, 2007 15:57
Sorry about the double post, but I forgot to put my email address before.
My email address is psyenzfyktshun@gmail.com
Thanks again,
PsyFy
December 4th, 2007 15:55
I want to know how to bypass the free trial of World of Warcraft and I would also like to know if anyone knows where to get a list of free servers for it. Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
PsyFy
December 4th, 2007 10:34
is there a way to scan a program to find out which time trial protection software was used?
i do an all scan and alot of things show up and can not find any reference to the program i am looking to reset
November 22nd, 2007 02:06
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November 11th, 2007 03:05
Thanks man, I’m a slave of the trail train, it slightly began to irritate me, but there were you, thanks man, it’s not that I’m cheap, live is expensive and too, to pay for all. Yhanks !!!!
November 9th, 2007 11:35
it is simplyy superbb moreeee cooll methods plzzzzz
October 7th, 2007 10:27
Alright I have the Ccleaner and Trialreset. I can’t tell what to take out with trial reset and the backup option doesn’t have an obvious “restore” option. how can I reset/clear the keys so that the trial starts over. I’m not sure if Ccleaner will help me out here since the time is expired, if so then any info on that would be great.
October 5th, 2007 14:53
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October 1st, 2007 09:01
I have downloaded Profession Exam System PEST and the trial is expired and I can’t buy it. The site is gone! I have tried everything to get it to work again so I can finish my studies and I can’t.
Please help!!!
August 7th, 2007 06:08
Or the easy way… just use a Virtual PC on the same computer and you can have as many trials as you want, just keep using different Virtuals when they run out.
I like VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC
June 17th, 2007 14:58
Good tips. Another way is to use these registry cleaning programmes, like CCleaner. Seems like one of my trial programmes “count” the days it has been used and the CCleaner makes it loose count or stop counting. I’ve had my 30-days free trial programme for about half a year now…
June 2nd, 2007 20:43
Anyone knows how to do it in games?especially 60 minutes games??of course can’t adjust the date anymore….sad..sob sob sob
June 1st, 2007 03:55
i want to use morphvox trial version again! dude it’s not working!
June 1st, 2007 03:53
i’ve tried searching for cracks however my avast restricts it..as in all of it..every click i make..says..caution virus has been detected. freakin pissed!
May 20th, 2007 21:35
For some reason, the registration on the exetool forum is disabled. Was able to download the latest RC7 which supports Windows Vista here
http://thinkabdul.com/2007/05/13/trialreset-rc7-for-windows-vista-extendreset-time-or-trial-limit-of-commercial-software-and-applications-legally-without-using-cracks-or-reinstalling-windows/
May 14th, 2007 04:58
is there a way to do this on a symbian os (smartphone)? thanks
April 22nd, 2007 15:54
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February 17th, 2007 01:53
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December 15th, 2006 01:32
Re-installing windows!!!
are you kidding! just search for a crack, patch, fixedexe or exploit!
November 13th, 2006 15:39
well…i read ur article it was awsome….i tried to do most of the things you told…. but for the game ” ” it dint work … i tried RTKF…but it dosent seem to work too….do you mind giving me a mail on how else i can make it work.
November 5th, 2006 12:29
Thanks for the Guide, I will give it a try.
October 14th, 2006 05:05
nice article!
this is why i love this blog……you guys think like us….u dont care about being completely legal all the time