Author: William H Rogers
Date: 10:43:18 10/14/98
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On October 14, 1998 at 02:52:46, Georg Langrath wrote: >There is a lot of programs which can be used only a couple of days, like >downloaded Rebel 10. As you often can´t reuse them after reinstalling there must >be hidden information on harddisk. Is it right to hide information on my >harddisk that will be left there for ever? Can I be sure that it doesn´t harm >other programs in any way? > >Of course you can choose not to use them, but that wasn´t the question. > >Georg Many programmers embed the date of install within their own program files and keep track of it that way. Nothing, normally is put on your disk outside of the program itself. One way to 'beat the system' is to change the date to the install date before you play the program. This handles most date controlled limits, although it is not fair to the programmer.
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