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• Most trial software add a key in your system registry by tweaking it. When you uninstall a software after it’s trial period has expired, all files are deleted except the keys in the registry. Therefore when you try installing it again, it detects the key and gives you a message like for e.g, “Your trial period has expired”.
• To reset Ableton Live, do the following: Note: Resetting Live will cause your template set to be erased.You will also need to reconfigure your audio and MIDI hardware as well as your custom preferences.

Ableton Live is expensive for a reason; it’s an insanely powerful piece of software that’s been continuously improved for around 20 years by a team of 100s of people. Ableton Live Suite comes with a range of incredible built in instruments and effects, as well as unique tools like MaxForLive. Hello, I have been spending time trying to get my Push 2 back to a default state. Currently I can see the power button light up when connecting via USB and/or connecting with the power cable. My Push is not being recognized as midi device on PC or Mac though. My Push 2 is also completing blank with no loading UI or any other UI. Ableton Live creates ASD files in the same directory as the recorded or imported sound clip. The ASD filename is the sound clip filename with the '.asd' extension added. For example, if you import song.wav, the software creates song.wav.asd.

Normally there are two types of restrictions for shareware. The first one is the demo version with limited or crippled functionality that doesn’t have an expiry date and another type is the fully functional trial version that expires after a certain period of time. The amount of days given to try are normally around 30 days but it could be shorter or longer depending on the author of the software. In the earlier days, you can easily run the expired software by simply backdating the date on your Windows operating system but some software has got smarter to detect this and instantly ends the trial period.

You might think to yourself, how does the shareware knows how many days left in the trial period? Most of the time these commercial and freeware protectors drop some information somewhere deep inside your computer after installation so they know when it was installed and then comparing with the official current time pulled from the Internet. It is possible to find the location that records that information by using file or registry monitoring software including third party uninstaller software such as Revo Uninstaller but it can be tedious and frustrating work.

Here’s a few simpler ways on how you can extend trial periods of software using various different methods.

1. NirSoft RunAsDate

As the name might suggest, RunAsDate performs a trick on the trial software that has expired by injecting the time and date you specify into its process. This has a similar effect to manually setting your system clock to a different time and date, but in this instance your real clock remains unchanged. RunAsDate can also have multiple instances of its program running at once, and each one can have a separate date, all different to the real one.

As a simple example, if you’re using the popular archiver WinZip and its 30 day trial period has expired, it won’t let you use the program anymore, and you either have to purchase a license or uninstall it. Using RunAsDate, you can set the date back to be within the trial period making WinZip usable again. The image below is WinZip after the 30 day trial has passed, note the “Use Evaluation Version” is now grayed out.

If you now load up RunAsDate, all you have to do is browse for the application to use the program on, in this case “C:Program FilesWinZipWINZIP32.EXE”, then choose a date and time from the pop-out calender to before the trial period expired. Now simply press the Run button.

RunAsDate has a few other options such as allow arguments to be applied to the executable, and also a useful option to create a desktop shortcut which will automatically launch the application with the configuration options you’ve supplied in the window. The Immediate Mode check box can be used to inject the date/time earlier in the process, but is known to cause crashes on some programs, especially those using .NET.

If you run WinZip after entering the right date and time numbers and press Run or launch it via a shortcut, you’ll notice it no longer says expired and the Evaluation button is clickable again. Although time and date altering isn’t going to work on all trial software that has an expiry, it is a very quick and easy thing to try out first before turning to more advanced methods.

2. Trial-Reset 4.0

This is the final version released in 2010 by “The Boss”, and is able to scan and remove 45 types of commercial and freeware protections including some software that uses custom protectors such as Reflexive, Namo, ABBYY, WinRAR, WinZip and etc. In fact if you know the registry location of where the trial information are recorded for a shareware program, you can create your own text file and save it in the Lists folder.

Do note that Trial-Reset does not modify the shareware in anyway. It simply cleans the registry keys generated by the protectors which are normally not removed even after uninstalling the software. This is how a lot of shareware knows you have no trial period left, even if you uninstall and re-install the program again. Trial-Reset is very easy to use. To start scanning, simply click on the All located at the bottom left. The scanning will take a while since some of the methods require scanning the hard drive. The right pane will show all the detected keys that are used by any shareware titles.

You can backup, view or delete the keys, add to protect or auto cleaning list from the right click context menu. If you have a lot of shareware installed, there will be quite a number of results and you will need to do a trial and error to find the key that is associated with the software that you want to reset the trial period.

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my typing master is not working and showing demo version expired. plz give me solution.

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At one stage, Lotus 1-2-3 (spreadsheet) should be “unlocked” by carefully HEX editing where the serial number would normally go, with a random number LOL.

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I see these are the “least intrusive” ways to do it. I was watching things on YouTube earlier and saw a bunch of people messing with reverse engineering and debugging with OllyDbg, for example. But that’s quite complicated stuff.
People can waste months in that thing ending up in nothing. And the example you said that the info is stored on the servers, like MAC address, current IP and other hardware ID stuff that might lead you to a dead-end trying to crack software which you actually will have a lot of work and in a few updates your cracking method is gone (if published widely).

I’m trying to extend an specific software and this article was pretty useful, actually. Thanks for sharing. I’ll try the last method that interested me. I’m a bit broke right now, but I’ll see if I can get the donation version, so it can come in handy for some situations, where I can’t find specifically cracked software.

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Hi, Did you find any solution. I’ve used runasdate before but for a specific software its not working. What runasdate does it adds configs to launch as previous date (Which it writes on shortcut). But now when try to open the shortcut the application wont launch. Any help?

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Does this application – Trial Reset – remove the hidden files of Articulate Storyline? Can it detect and remove the keys etc and allow reinstallation of trial software?

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Does any of this work with the modern Adobe software? such as photoshop and lightroom?

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which one can be use to extend trial period of treeage?

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which one works for trial anti-virus program like avg/kaspersky/bitdefender?

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A slim possibility #4 might do something but software that connects to the internet as much as antivirus does will likely store data about your trial online, which you can’t change because it’s held elsewhere.

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Where are other three ways?

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Try page 2…

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There is zero reason to ever download, trial, or worse pay for winzip. 7-zip does more, is equally (more?) usable, and is free and open source, with regular releases for Windows.

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Just because you prefer one bit of software over another, doesn’t mean you should be instructing others not to use it. Winzip has a different feature set to 7-Zip and they are certainly not equal. If others want to pay for or use Winzip, they are perfectly entitled to do so.

You should be happy there’s so much choice out there and people have options to choose what’s best for them.

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For me it’s just a matter of which looks nicer, i don’t need any of the extra things 7-zip does.

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thank you sir raymond.

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Thank a billion! It perfectly works for most of my trial software.
God bless Devs from RunAsDate and also Mr. Raymon for giving us info about this amazing software.

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The first option worked for me. Thank you so much :)

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Please does this work on AutoCAD 2012. I just have 15days remaining.

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Any body know how to reset trail date key
I look at the ResEdit only show date I try to download again yesterday
I want to know where is date it compair so I can change that date
Have to be 30 day Less than current date
I greatly appreciated if some can tell me where in registry I can change

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LIte Matt I can’t find the password – have downloaded the zip file but EVERYTHING needs a password? Any help would be great thank you

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The password is clearly stated on the download page…

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can someone tell me if this works for holdemresources? it does not work for me

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Found a better way to extend trial:
Close Quickbooks
Delete all the files in this folder: C:ProgramDataIntuitEntitlement Clientv8
Then enter Quickbooks.

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Interesting that for example Sketchup Pro trial doesn’t need to be reset. Just switch off internet and change date to future like year 2050 and then install Sketchup. Do not run yet. Change date back to today and then delete %appdata%Sketchup and %localappdata%Sketchup and %programdata%sketchup. Then run it and it will have trial that doesn’t expire until year 2050.

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Any suggestions for Toon Boom Harmony

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I suggest to run any exe described here with sandboxie to isolate the damage and later delete the files from sandboxie. You also might like to use Oracle VM and mess as much as you like.

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RunAsDate works perfect for any version of LabVIEW.

Thank you very much! It helped a lot.

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Does anyone know if RunAsDate works with QuickBooks. I’m in month 3 of a 6-month trial that came with a textbook for a class I’m taking. I still have time, but it would be so nice to be able to hang on to the software when the class is over.

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VIRUS FOUND:
Trojan:Win32/Tulim.C!plock Alert Level: Severe

Category: Trojan

Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

Recommended action: Remove this software immediately.

Items:
file:C:UsersUSERDownloadsTrial-Reset40FinalTrial-Reset40FinalPluginsReflexive.dll

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That is obviously a false positive and the file isn’t malicious, it happens a lot I’m afraid.

Like I say to everyone, if you are not comfortable, don’t use the program.

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Does any of this work for IDM? if so, which one works the best

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We’re not sure as we don’t use IDM, your only real option is to try things out and see…

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I’d suggest trying Free Download Manager instead of trying to extend IDM. I used IDM initially but FDM is just as good if not better and, as the name suggests, free.

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Ableton Live Trial Reset

Rather than extending it, why don’t you unlock it manually right away? There are lots of tricks available online!

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After extracting and trying to run the application on windows for trial rest 4.0, it comes with an error.

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Hi – thank you so much for this blog. It has helped me a great deal!!

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It absolutely does work !

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Reset Ableton Live Trial

Thanks for this much-awaited post. It is a boon for those who can not afford very high price of the software!

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the Trial-reste40final.zip needs a password to open. What is it?

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The password is listed on the page you downloaded the Trial-reste40final.zip from.

Glad you found it…

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Well, if you follow this blog for a bit, you should probably already know what Ableton is, but maybe if you’re a new one, first we´re going to go through some fundamentals about, what we consider, nowadays best digital audio workstation software for you. And for the more advanced, we bring you a sort of a recap of Ableton 10, the different editions it comes in, and all you need to know about Ableton Live!

Ableton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation available for Windows and Mac. It’s 64 bits only and it’s not supported on Linux. What makes it different, is that it’s been thought to be an instrument for live performances and is a great tool for composing, mixing, recording, mastering and arranging. For its versatile use, DJs also use it for crossfading, beat-matching and to perform other effects used by turntablists. Ableton Live was one of the first DAW to automatically beat-match songs.

The latest version has been released on Feb of 2018, is Live 10, and if you liked Live 9, it will blow your head with its new features, and it’s possible that you won’t need to open the Live 9 version again.

Let’s talk about some of the ones that stand out the most since these are the ones that won´t variate in the different editions you can purchase.

• It comes with an improved Interface with a new font, an updated color palette, the appearance of audio and MIDI clips are different in session view and arrangement view, midi notes in the piano roll are now in the color of their midi clip and come with five new themes.
  
• In this new version’s new file Browser, you can now search and install new packs and install updates. The new browser also includes a new color feature, which lets you set tags for your favorite sounds and clips. Right click on a tag to rename it. You can assign new tags by right-clicking or by using the numbers keys 1 – 7.
  
• Lite 10 gives you new export options. You can now export your audio as WAV and MP3 simultaneously.
  
• In your audio output configuration settings, you can also set custom names to your audio tracks and groups outputs. Your audio out custom names will show up in the audio out select box.
  
• Talking about the metronome and mixers, in Live 10 you can choose between 3 different sounds: classic, click and wood. It includes also some improvements to the mixer. Right click on a pan knob to enter split/stereo pan mode, which will now give you more control of the panning of your tracks. You can also quickly reset knobs and sliders to default by double-clicking.
  
• In arrangement view, you can now move individual clips by using the arrow keys and holding command for finer adjustments. You can also activate and deactivate selected portions of clips. If you hold ALT while resizing one track, it resizes all of them.
  
• In this new version, you can create groups within groups. You can also set the color of all the tracks that group by right-clicking and choosing assign track color to grouped tracks and clips.
  

• Also, in the arrangement view, fades are always visible in the content lane, giving you quick control over your fade adjustments. You can now turn on a global automation mode using the Global Automation button. This now makes all the automation lanes visible in arrangement view.
  
• Capture is an exciting new way to get music into Live without the stress of hitting the record button. Simply press the capture button and it will create a session clip which contains the last phrase played without the need for you to activate recording. Live plays back the captured Loop immediately and its ready for you to add more material. Live is now always listening for your next performance.
  

• Wavetable is a brand new instrument for Live. It’s a dual oscillator synthesizer with flexible modulation. Echo is a new effect for modulation delay, which gives you a wide range of new sounds. The Pedal plugin is another new audio effect which is inspired by distortion pedals. Drum bus gives you an analog style drum processor that gives body and character to a group of drums. The utility device also received a few improvements, such as a mono switch, a bass mono switch, and the left and right buttons now invert the input signal instead of the output signal.

For those interested in buying Ableton, the Intro version includes great essentials at a great price -$99-; the Standard one has full features plus extras -$449-; and the Suite version is a complete professional tool, where you visualize a complete integrated studio -$749-. All of them come with all of Live’s essential instruments, effects, recording tools, controller, workflows and so much more! Must say that if you’re a student or a teacher, they are offering 40% discount, and if you buy digital download versions of standard or suite, you can save $50 over a boxed copy.

Now let´s dig into this Ableton Editions, and what they´re all about...

It gives you unlimited audio and MIDI tracks. It also gives you 256 mono inputs and 256 mono outputs. So, if you’re planning to record your complete band at once, and you have a full drum kit, vocals, guitars, keyboards, etc. you’re going to need to get at least this option. Otherwise, it is just not going to work for you.

It´s a great tool for integrating your external hardware synthesizers into tour Live Sets with the ease and flexibility of plug-ins and includes 5 software instruments, 34 audio effects, and 8 MIDI effects.

You also can get more than 10 GB of sounds and samples to start working and putting into your productions, which are a lot of sounds for you to work with. Also has 12 send and return tracks.

This is the most expensive, but it is also the most featured pack. You can get the same 256 mono audio inputs and outputs than the standard version.

It also adds 60 GB more of samples and sounds, so we have a total of 70 GB... and that is a lot, I mean, just make sure you have room on your hard drive for that. It adds some more audio effects too, giving you a total of 55 audio effects, and it adds 9 more MIDI effects, giving you a total of 17.

Ableton 10 Live Suite includes all the key features options, like the possibility of generating or receiving pitch, control, clock, and trigger CV, Max for Live (that powers the range of instruments and devices, and lets you work and customize your instruments).

Another positive thing is that includes all software instruments, like Analog, that emulates the unique character of vintage analog synthesizers; Bass, an analog synthesizer that provides a huge palette of bass sounds; Collision, that allows you to improve percussion sounds; the DrumSynths, that allows you to create unique drum and percussion sounds using synthesis; Electric, that has different sound of classic electric pianos, the possibility of combining frequency modulation and subtractive synthesis; Tension, a physical modeling string synthesizer and more.

How To Reset Ableton Trial Period On Mac

This one is the less expensive of them, and this edition is commonly mistaken with the Lite version. It´s the most limited but also the most affordable option for most people. You can consider this as a really good place to start with Ableton music production. This affordable approach can actually get your hands on it and it’s also going to give you an idea about the potential of the DAW, and hopefully enough to decide whether or not it’s worth spending the extra money to upgrade to the suite or the standard version.

Ableton Live Lite limits you to 16 audio and MIDI tracks, and that’s any combination meaning that you can only have 16 tracks total. It also limits you to four mono inputs and four mono outputs, so if you are thinking of tracking a whole band with Ableton Live Lite, it is not going to happen. You just won’t have enough inputs and outputs to do it.

It comes with 4 software instruments options -Drum Rack, Impulse, Simpler and Instrument Rack-, 21 audio effects and 8 MIDI effects. You got to send and return tracks and limited audio warping functionality. And you are not going to be able to slice audio or change audio into MIDI.

It has 8 scenes, 2 send and return tracks, more than 1500 sounds, and 8 mono audio output and input channels.

This one is an edition meant for when you´ve just unboxed your new hardware, a MIDI controller for example, and need a DAW to use it with. It comes as a bundle pack with a variety of apps and hardware products. It´s a limited version as well as the Intro, but this one deals with fewer CPU loads, making it lighter to your computer.

You can’t buy this Ableton edition separately, it´s bought when you buy a product and comes with a Lite Serial, a code that you use to download it free (after you´ve bought a piece of gear).

Even knowing it does not have instruments and samples from Live Standard and Suite, in our opinion, it´s a really good option for all of you beginners out there. It brings a more than reasonable amount of sounds, effects, plugins, and features in general. It features:

8 Audio & MIDI tracks

2 Send and return tracks

8 Mono audio output channels

You can use it for DJing or learning the DAW, or start knowing your new device, like a first option if you’re not sure to buy the Standard or Suite ones for a very cheap and affordable price. And mentioned you can get it for free, buying some hardware MIDI controllers like:

And for those who like to dig deeper, we have the complete technical details about Ableton Live Lite, straight out of Ableton official site:

Software Instruments

Audio Effects

MIDI Effects

System Requirements

PC

• Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8 or Windows 10 (64-bit)
• 64-bit Intel® Core™ or AMD multi-core processor (Intel® Core™ processor or faster recommended)
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
• 1366x768 display resolution
• ASIO compatible audio hardware for Link support (also recommended for optimal audio performance)
• USB port (USB 2.0 or better) for program installation
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
• Up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content]
  

Mac

• OS X 10.11.6 or later
• Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor (Intel® Core™ i5 processor or faster recommended)
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
• 1280x800 display resolution
• Core Audio compliant audio interface recommended
• USB port (USB 2.0 or better) for program installation
• Access to an internet connection for authorizing Live (for downloading additional content and updating Live, a fast internet connection is recommended)
• Approximately 3 GB disk space on the system drive for the basic installation (8 GB free disk space recommended)
• Up to 76 GB disk space for additionally available sound content
  

Including in Live’s core library of sounds and presets

• 268 Instrument Racks
• 48 Drum Racks
• 117 Audio Effect Racks
• 5 MIDI Effect Racks

• 50 Instrument Presets
• 172 Audio Effect Presets
• 109 MIDI Effect Presets

• 84 Loops
• 513 Multisamples, FX and other one-shots