After reading the comments on February 7th, yesterday’s 2Flayer giveaway, I thought I’d give it a try out. Using a flat screen I really don’t need to use any screensavers but do like to keep a small collection of them for ha ha’s.
After installing, it activated and seems to be registered. It just says full version in the “About” section in the help menu. Everything seemed to work great for the little testing I got to do with it. It was near bed time trying this, so I shut down the computer and went to sleep. Today I turned on the computer and a second after windows was done loading up my desktop I get a pop-up box informing me:
“Don’t miss out!
Your 30 day trial period is over and now, with great regret, 2Flyer is forced to close. Buy Now you’ll wonder why you waited.
Do you want to register 2flyer now?
_Your order is risk-free because of our 100% unconditional 30 day money_back guarantee.”
With the buttons yes or no, at the bottom of the pop-up.
Tilting my head slightly to the side and raising an eyebrow, “Huh? 30 DAYS??? It hasn’t even been 10 hours!!!” “WITH GREAT REGRET 2Flyer IS FORCED TO CLOSE???” My hand wasn’t even near the mouse to open any program!!!
After checking a few autostart programs that I use to control what loads up at windows startup, I didn’t see any changes made or added. The strange part is this 2Flyer pop-up kept appearing every few minutes over and over, and when I do open 2Flyer it works perfect and still reads in the About of the help menu “Full Edition”
I only downloaded this program from GAOTD and read the txt file instructing me to just run the setup file. It activated no problem with the grey GAOTD pop-up and web site both opening up informing me that 2Flyer is activated.
After looking in screensaver section of my display properties I noticed that 2Flyer made itself the default screensaver when I always have the choice of “none” selected. So after selecting “NONE” and hitting apply, 2Flyer would reset to default again. Each time it did the above popup would appear along at the same time. It also installed 3 listings titled “Image Maker” in the screensaver list selection of the display property.
I opened the program folder in the directory C:\Program Files\2Flyer\Screensaver Pro, and noticed that there are 3 exe files:
ConfigureSaver.exe…..runs the program
clsdesk.exe…………..not sure why it’s used here but what this exe does on its own is remove any wallpaper you might have on your desktop if you click on it.
RunDefaultSaver.exe…………this is the culprit that keeps resetting this program to be the default screensaver causes the pop-up I kept getting every minute. I removed this file and no longer have the pop-up automatically appearing. The program now only resets itself when I run the 2Flyer software and then the pop-up appears again when going into the display properties. Tho my anti-virus and spy programs didn’t pick anything up, I could see why some people mentioned that they did.
I’m running Windows XP SP2 2005 Media Edition. Not sure if it matters but whatever, I guess this software is out of here for me.
Now if some one could refresh my memory on how to get the 3 installed listings titled “Image Maker” in the screensaver list selection removed I’d feel better.
