<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 17:59 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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</div>I'm actually just doing this out of interest. I've played with this<br>
program that has an expiration (not registered, trialware). I'm curious<br>
as how Windows programmers implement this feature in their code. WINE<br>
should make it easy to figure out. I can't find any real data in<br>
the .reg files. I'm leaning on the proper method is to store this value<br>
in the .exe and update it as needed.<br></blockquote><div><br>I've seen that before. during the install, ether the start date or the end date is embedded into the exe. It checks every time it's run after that point. You can test for that by resetting the system date past the end date and disconnect all networking. <br>
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