When downloading a paid or shareware program, the manufacturer always offers a "trial" version download from its website. The trial version, in most cases, is the actual program complete with all its features even if after a few days it will stop working. This tot of days, which can vary from program to program, is a trial period of the product at the end of which the user will decide whether or not to buy it or not.
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To fool the trial and extend the trial period, you could change the computer time or, more reasonably, change the execution date for that program.
A small innocent Windows utility, which needs no installation, allows you to run any program by setting the date and time as you like .
In practice RunAsDate is able to deceive the protection of the software by making it believe that it is a different date from that of the system when a program is run. The system date is not altered, only the executable can be deceived at will. Technically, the utility intercepts calls to the GetSystemTime, GetLocalTime, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime kernel and replaces them with a date and time decided by the user. RunAsDate is not foolproof, I doubt very much that all programs will be fooled by this program, however, before proceeding to uninstall the program or looking for a crack, it could be a quick and simple way to use RunAsDate.
Alternatively, if this does not work well, you can extend the trial period of a trial program with the Time Stopper tool that creates an icon on the desktop of the selected program with a locked mode, i.e. the time available for testing the software does not pass shareware trial. I don't know if it also works with antivirus, but I don't think so.
You can also change the internal date of Windows with the Beyondo program which allows you to change the day, month and year on the system calendar. In this way you can also send emails making them seem of the past. To return to the current date, simply reset the tool itself.
