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30 day trial
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30 day trial
Ok, so I'm at the point where I have nearly finished my media Player and I've decided to release it as shareware with a 30 day trial.

What I normally do is simply write the installation datestamp to the registry and disguise it as best as possible and then use this to determine how many days the user has got left.

However, this is a pretty primitive way of going about things and was wondering if anyone else had any better ideas?
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30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 1, 2012 at 7:31 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Tiberius - June 1, 2012 at 8:13 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 1, 2012 at 9:12 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Autumnlicious - June 1, 2012 at 12:50 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by padraic - June 2, 2012 at 3:12 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Jaysyn - June 8, 2012 at 11:22 am
RE: 30 day trial - by frankiej - June 8, 2012 at 11:26 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Napoléon - June 8, 2012 at 12:07 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Jaysyn - June 8, 2012 at 12:19 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 8, 2012 at 12:56 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Tiberius - June 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 10, 2012 at 3:28 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Jackalope - June 15, 2012 at 10:44 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Autumnlicious - June 8, 2012 at 12:30 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Jaysyn - June 8, 2012 at 12:37 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by frankiej - June 8, 2012 at 1:00 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Jaysyn - June 8, 2012 at 1:29 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 8, 2012 at 1:34 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Taqiyya Mockingbird - June 10, 2012 at 1:33 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Autumnlicious - June 10, 2012 at 12:40 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Tiberius - June 11, 2012 at 6:32 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Colanth - June 15, 2012 at 9:56 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 15, 2012 at 10:07 pm
RE: 30 day trial - by Tiberius - June 16, 2012 at 6:11 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Autumnlicious - June 16, 2012 at 1:54 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Darwinian - June 16, 2012 at 7:28 am
RE: 30 day trial - by Tiberius - June 16, 2012 at 7:39 am



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