Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   tjchan
   Member

   This is weird. I followed the following...started the program it immediately says it's already expired. But it lets me go on still, so I did this:

   Start the software, go to Help/Register menu, enter your username and the registration key provided, and click "Request now", select "Internet activation" and click "Request now" again, then click OK, your copy will be registered.

   Got my hardware key and it said everything if valid would kill the nag screens. That didn't happen. It's still unregistered.

   Any ideas?
   -Timothy

   Posted 17 years ago #
2. 

   BillW50
   Member

   "... says it's already expired." Yes Timothy, it does say that. Just ignore it and click on continue. And did you close the program down once you entered "giveawayoftheday", registration key, and then got your activation key online? As it doesn't know it is registered until after a reopen.

   Posted 17 years ago #
3. 

   BillW50
   Member

   I mean close it down in the system tray too.

   Posted 17 years ago #
4. 

   tjchan
   Member

   Yep. Did that. To be sure I even tried rebooting when that didn't work.

   Posted 17 years ago #
5. 

   BillW50
   Member

   Wow I don't know? It went really easy for me.

   Posted 17 years ago #
6. 

   pauloparra
   Member

   My comment has been awaiting moderation for an hour!
   I'll post here and maybe somebody helps me in less then 2 and a half hours. This is what my comment that's waiting moderation

   I follow all the instructions.
   Install the program, tell it to go ahead and run unregistered.
   I go to help/Register.
   I use my login name as user name and put the registration key
   I click on Request now.
   I get a window with options to register from the web or from the internet. I choose internet and click request now.
   The window gives messages saying that it has succesfully contacted the server and spits a activation key.
   I press ok, and the activation key magically appears at the activation key entry. I check and it is the same..
   I press ok.
   The program thanks me for registering and then it says that if everything is ok, the windows will dissapear.
   I quit the program and start it right away and I get the “this is an unregistered program,… just like the first time around. What am I doing wrong?
   This is the first time I can’t activate and I download pretty much every day either a program or a game or both.
   I need help before time runs out!

   Posted 17 years ago #
7. 

   BillW50
   Member

   "I use my login name as user name and put the registration key"

   no use "giveawayoftheday" as the user name. Everything else looks right.

   Posted 17 years ago #
8. 

   pauloparra
   Member

   I tried that too to no avail, and I have tried for two hours. Unistalling, rebooting everything. Right now, I started and boom, it is working!!!!!

   I take that back, it is still not working. Everytime I open the main window, it says it is an evaluation copy...

   Posted 17 years ago #
9. 

   BillW50
   Member

   Oh thank goodness! :)

   Posted 17 years ago #
10. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    sorry ,it is not working I edited the previous messg

    Posted 17 years ago #
11. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    The weird thing is that, altough it says that there are no days left, everything seems to work fine and I only get one anoying window, that is, the first one...

    Posted 17 years ago #
12. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    is that the way it works for everybody?

    Posted 17 years ago #
13. 

    BillW50
    Member

    Yes it says the evaluation period is over from the get go. But it is not. Click on use unregistered (middle button)

    Posted 17 years ago #
14. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    I think Im going to give up on this one. It is so nice though, and I never had any problems before :(

    Posted 17 years ago #
15. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    SO I have been wasting all this time for nothing, lol, what an idiot I am

    Posted 17 years ago #
16. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    I feel happy and sad at the same time. Its weird.

    Posted 17 years ago #
17. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    But my comment is still waiting evaluation. Maybe nobody is posting comments anymore and that's why, But its been 30 mins since I posted it.

    Posted 17 years ago #
18. 

    BillW50
    Member

    When you close it, you are closing it from the tray too? If not, you have too. Then reopen.

    Posted 17 years ago #
19. 

    BillW50
    Member

    I really can't see anything you are doing wrong. I did it three times and it worked all three times the first time around on different computers.

    Posted 17 years ago #
20. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    Anyway, back to Crusaders of space. That game's got me hooked and now we have 2!
    Thank you very very very much Bill for helping me stop banging my head on the wall.

    Posted 17 years ago #
21. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    Yes, I knew that to exit completely you had to stop the one one on the tray too. I just thought that we didn't have to go through the first screen, that's why I thought it wasnt working. I thought that tomorrow it will stop or something until you told me that everybody has to go to the first 'you are not registered' window. I have learned how to use it by all the time spent on it. Thank you for your help. you are the only one that helps me!

    Posted 17 years ago #
22. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    hmm now Im confused, Are you saying that the unregistered part at the beggining has to go away after registration?

    Posted 17 years ago #
23. 

    BillW50
    Member

    Yes, I only saw it the first time and I registered and activated it. Now when I start it, it goes straight in the tray. No nag screen on 3 different computers.

    Posted 17 years ago #
24. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    Yeah mine goes to the tray too when I say start, but when I open the main window, I get the unregistered thing

    Posted 17 years ago #
25. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    but everything else works fine, no nag screens when I make new macros or nothing. Can you open the main window (the one we had to open to register) and not have to wait 3 secs to get the 'run unregistered' option?

    Posted 17 years ago #
26. 

    BillW50
    Member

    Oh okay the Main window thing. Nope, I don't get that after I registered and activated. Here is the screen shot of Help -> About

    http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7751/20070217000006ei9.jpg

    Posted 17 years ago #
27. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    Nope, mine doesn't show give away or nothing

    Posted 17 years ago #
28. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    There is no registered by message at all

    Posted 17 years ago #
29. 

    BillW50
    Member

    No I go right into xStarter when I open the main window. I don't get that nag screen thing at all.

    Posted 17 years ago #
30. 

    pauloparra
    Member

    ok it could be a norton protection thing. Im going to shut down the antivirus and the firewall for a moment and see if it works

    Posted 17 years ago #

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