![]() ![]() I’m not even sure I would have thought of this even today if I were to try it.īut these days I use software that’s open source for a lot of things instead, and where I need proprietary software I pay for it instead. Probably some of those pieces of software were doing similar things to the one mentioned in the OP. But I also found that, even though this was in a time before most software would do online checks, many pieces of software were able to know that the trial had expired even if I tried things like setting the clock back or removing registry entries they had created. So I was able to use the utility to discover and defeat the trial protection of itself. I only had the trial version of the utility, but using the utility itself I found that they were storing information in the registry about when the trial would expire. On a related note I remember many years ago when I was using Windows, and there was a third-party utility to monitor the registry for changes. In terms of protecting against regular end users fiddling with the system time I mean. ![]()
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