This often has the effect of also removing registry entries shareware might leave behind to watch its trial expiry status.Īs an example, this can be achieved for the Internet Download Manager shareware program when its 30 day trial expires. The theory is simple in that you use a standard piece of installation monitor software which watches the files and registry entries that a program creates when it installs, and then can completely uninstall the software including everything that doesn’t get removed by the standard uninstaller. This method may not seem that obvious at first, but actually can work quite well in many circumstances. Like Nirsoft RunAsDate, this tool will work on some shareware programs and not others but is easy enough to try.

Choose the new time and date from the pop-out calender, and then give the shortcut icon a name and finish by clicking the create button. Simply run Time Stopper and locate the trial software executable with the Browse button. This tool does differ slightly though because you don’t have the option to directly run the expired program from Time Stopper, but instead it is designed specifically to run from a desktop shortcut with the new time and date injected when you run the program from the shortcut. Time Stopper is a program that behaves in a similar way to RunAsDate and fools the expired application into thinking it’s still within the trial period.

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