How to Create Trials That Never Expire

Hey guys. This is Master Jake and today I’m going to be showing you a program called RunAsDate. I actually had this program displayed and in Adobe tutorial talking about how to get pass the expired license, hack on Adobe Photoshop CS3 but that video got taken down because Adobe apparently didn’t like me teaching that. But, I’m still going to show you the program now so you can use it for whatever you want to. All right. Go to Google. Oops. I spelled Google wrong and it’s not a good idea. I watched the video on that yesterday. Okay. Type “RunAsDate”. It’s actually one word but it doesn’t matter as long as you get to the same spot. Now find the download place. This one is download.cnet.com ids pretty a trustable place. Download the program. Okay. I’ll go ahead and click that. Download’s going to begin in a moment. All right, save the file. now, mine’s going to be saved to the desktop of course. Here it is and now I’ll open up the Zip file and show you the three things. You got the ‘readme.txt’, a ‘RunAsDate.chm’, that’s a help file. They come in handy and then a ‘RunAsDate.exe’. Create a new folder. RunAsDate, drag the three files in there to extract them and boom! You have installed the program. Now, what you want to do is run the RunAsDate.exe but I’m going to delete both of these because I already have it installed. And I’m just going to open up the one I have installed right here. Okay. Now, run the RunAsDate.exe. Now, what exactly this program does is if you have an application that you wan to run from a specific date, you can put the application in here, put the date you want it to run, any additional parameters and then you can create a shortcut so that you can run it from that date at anytime you want. It’s basically a quick launch. What’s the point to this? Well, if you have programs that go by specific dates like trial software, trial software will set up usually a specific date that they expire on. If you don’t want the trial to ever expire, then you can grab the application and run it from a specific date. Okay. So let’s say, let’s see. What is today? June 18. So let’s say my Audacity trial. I know audacity doesn’t have a trial but I have to have an example. Let’s say my Audacity trial expires on June 20 which is two days from now. Click Browse on application that run and find it. So we’re going to desktop. Actually it’s in Computer. Let’s see, Files, Programs, Audacity, and find the executable that says Audacity.exe. Audacity.exe is executable. Click Open. Okay. Now set the date and time that you want the program to run from. It can be anytime be fore the expiration date which is like I said June 20th so I’m just going to stet it back to June 1st and at 12 am that’s fine. I don’t need any additional parameters for this. I really don’t know what these two do. Immediate Mode, I know what that does. As soon as you start the program, it will apply the new date. This works on some applications and it does it on others. So you need to experiment around. Either un-check it or check it, and then see if it works. If it doesn’t, do the opposite of whatever you did. I’ll check Immediate Mode and then you wan to create a desktop shortcut, we’ll call it “Audacity Hack”. Click Create Desktop Shortcut and close. Now, when you come over here, you’ll see the new shortcut. Now, anytime you double click this, it’s going to run Audacity from the date we specified which is June 1st. so if the Audacity had a trial and you would be running it from June 1st and it would never expire. Now, in optional way of doing this, would of course be to change your own date. But that can really screw stuff up because back when I had Photoshop and was trying to get that to fix the license pack, then I set my date back but in doing so, other programs that used my date like my virus software, it reset because it had it set to a date to where it was registered. And when I went back so far it had never been registered. So it’s kind of like going back in time on your computer. It can really screw stuff up. So I recommend RunAsDate any day to do that because it runs the specific program at the date. But anyway, that’s the program. If you want to learn more about it, read the ‘readme.chm’ file that came with it and thanks for watching the video.