Thanks, Violet4714. I'll look into this matter. First I'll have to know what is causing the unregistering.
Wanderer7

I not clean and on reboot AnVir Task Manager keep on tell me to put in a key do this 3 time be for it keeps key for a few days, It's not a reg or ccleaner that did this ?

hi, Wanderer7...

welcome to the forums!...

the GOTD owners/operators are kind enough to leave threads open for us all...sometimes it causes some quirks/problems, but overall a good thing...

unregistering can be caused by many things, among them: registry cleaners; a "rebranded" program replacing the key of the original program, causing it to unregister; an error by the developer; a program that is mistakenly updated (some are set on install to auto-update); a program that requires installation under each user name (instead of just once for all users); ...and i'm sure more that some geekier than me can better explain...

the GOTD team & the developers try to find a balance for us all in regard to registration keys...if we have a key for every giveaway & can reinstall, the dev may lose upgrade sales after the giveaway/advertising of the software...no key & registration doesn't "stick", we may lose the chance to try a giveaway...not easy to balance, but the effort is there...

i checked my "Magnifying Glass Pro" & "Chameleon Startup Manager" giveaways, & they are still registered...

you can contact the Admin or a Moderator with a PM (Private Message), but posting keys or info about obtaining them would violate GOTD rules...

sorry to have rattled on, but hope to have helped explain a few things...

Hi, Guys,
I am new at this game and I have no idea, whether a 3-weeks-old stream can still be joined or not...
Anyhow this "unregistering" of programs happened to me twice lately, once the Magnifying Glass Pro advised me that I have only so-and-somany days for the trial, yesterday it happened to the Chameleon Startup Manager.

I, too, think, that it is a problem with registry cleanup. But Registry Cleaning is essential for avoiding slowdans and for those, like me, who do lots of testing on programs, installing and uninstalling - it is simply a must.

Thenameipicked suggests to restore from Registry Backups - but this is clearly not possible! If you restore your registry to an older date, it will run havock with all the new programs and all those programs that do registry changes while they work.

Registry cleaners usually provide a way to exclude certain registry keys from cleaning. It would help a lot, if the Giveaway people could tell us which keys to keep intakt. But there is no way to contact them...

Regards - from the Wanderer7

Doesn't GOTD pay these guys for their software?

There's one I will know for sure. I bought a new dvd burner a few days ago and didnt come with burner, so I yanked one out of media center pc. I'm pretty sure I put that program on there, so it reset. Then I'll know.
The sata cords should be in any day now, so I'll keep ya'll posted.

oh, wait the sata cord I robbed was for a slide external hard drive, that I dont have. I'll put back together tomorrow.

That seems to be a severe problem.
Maybe the GOTD team should contact the developer.

I just wanted to share with all the poster here that you are not alone in your registration problems and that I am sorry to report that my Wondershare Video2FLV that I installed on 2 laptop computers (Vista ultimate, one 32-bit & one 64-bit OS) both started prompting for registration on Wednesday 2 days later saying I had 15 days. This was after successful registration on Monday. No registry cleans or system restores were performed, or additional software was installed. I used Wondershare Video2FLV without problems Monday and Tuesday on the 32-bit Vista and during that time the computer had been restarted at least 3 times in normal use. I talked to a friend who installed it and upon his investigation discovered the same had happened to him on his XP pro desktop PC.

While I have yet to discover a solution, I plan to keep my eye on these forums and my internet searches too and hopefully be able find some more positive news to report. In the meantime also, I’ll continue to explore alternatives that will create web-friendly output with a .swf that links to the corresponding larger .flv file.

Now as Txnnok mentioned Kaspersky, I remember that I got problems with some wondershare programmes too. Kaspersky classified the old flash versions coming with wondershare products as dangerous. As I never used those programmes since they were installed, I deleted them without testing if they are still registered.
Maybe your AV software did the same thing, or an update of flash smashed the registration.

Wow, I had chopped off more of the sentence than I meant to. I meant to say running restores and(to) also turning windows features on or off can do it.

I had typed out a long paragraph explaining what I did and then changed my mind. I remembered that it was because that features had turned off a a bunch of boot up services, causing problems with my network, sound card, and making everything look like windows 98. The only thing is I couldn't get it to restore at the time.

I did use a new registry clear that I was testing out a few hours before all that happened or I my Asquared Antimalware always picks up aomething from one of wondershare products or my copy of Kaspersky does.
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Wondershare\Streaming Video Recorder\URLSniffer.exe detected: Trojan-Dropper.Delf!IK
C:\Program Files (x86)\qvPDF\Plugins\ftpupload.dll detected: Backdoor.Win32.Ciadoor!IK
C:\Program Files (x86)\qvPDF\Plugins\savetotiff.dll detected: Backdoor.Win32.Ciadoor!IK
C:\Program Files (x86)\qvPDF\Plugins\shellopen.dll detected: Backdoor.Win32.Ciadoor!IK
C:\Windows\System32\nvimage.dll detected: Riskware.AdWare.Win32.Virtumonde!IK
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\nvimage.dll detected: Riskware.AdWare.Win32.Virtumonde!IK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I left the rest in cause those qvpdf paragon slovoeducation translation giveaway. Probably a false positive, But it gave me the idea that maybe out malware programs could be yanking that part out and just so happened to carry the code.

I also noticed that mine still says upgrade to flashpro for 19.95 70%off for giveaway of the day users, so possibly the code still there and the time is up.

Just a thought. time for a nap for me now.

Every giveaway that was installed before you made the restore will stay the same. The programs that keep their registration info in the registry will be lost. And if you don't want to lose your programs, I would suggest making a backup after every downloaded giveaway.

I guess Txnnok is right. I did a restore awhile back. Maybe that's the reason it became unregistered.

A question, if I do a restore or registry clean will all the apps downloaded from Giveawayoftheday will be unregistered? How do you prevent that from happening if ever someone do a restore?

p/s Hola notblocklox. Thanks for the head-ups. I guess it didn't hurt if I write to Wondershare or I shall be using Format Factory as recommended by Txnnok.

Sleep tight and sweet dreams my friend. Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.

Sincerely yours,
~ ArahMan7

Running restores to turning windows features on or off can do change a reg key.
I just had it happen to me on wondershare video to flash encoder. Guess its the same one your talking about. Just use format factory. Its way better anyway and covers every almost every format known.
http://www.formatoz.com/
Good luck on yours.

the first ever Wondershare program that became unregistered for me...no registry cleaner used here, either...and haven't installed anything since then...

bummer...

the odd thing is the program says 15 days left...when i installed it, i took screenshots...before it was registered, it said 30 days left...

Ooops, ArahMan7, haven't seen you, as I wrote my answer.
Sorry for you too.
Maybe you should write to Wondershare and tell them what happened, in the past there have been several developers who helped with another reg-key. Good luck!

graylox

Welcome to the forums, Bozeke!
Sorry to hear that the programme is no longer registered. I hope it is still okay on your second machine?
To answer your question: normally a registered programme stays registered - but we all know: Sh*t happens.
As thenameipicked wrote, one reason could be an aggressive cleaning or that you tried to update the programme or any incompatibility in your system.
Are you sure that it was correctly registered? The information that the GOTD download is activated does not mean that the programme is registered.
Anyway, I'm afraid we can't help you. (Especially not I, 'cause I'm terribly tired - it's 2.37 AM here - YAAAAWN

Have a good day or night and have a look at all the free games our games-team has found for us: Free Weekday Games Synopsis.

graylox

Yeah, mine too.

I'm running XP Pro SP3, but when I ran it yesterday Wondershare Video2FLV was no longer registered.

To answer thenameipicked, no I didn't do any registry clean lately.

Did you do a registry clean??? If so, that was what probably did it, and hopefully you made a backup before you cleaned it. (Or your program has an "undo" feature)

I downloaded the Wondershare Video2FLV on both laptops and both said the program was activated successwfully. Now my DELL INSPIRON mini running XP Home is claiming it is not registered. I converted several movies with it yesterday (9-29-09) successfully but now it claims to add a watermark since it is no longer registered. Any Ideas please...

Hola WhiteRabbit,

Thanks for the info. Look like there's no easy way to do it. It gonna be a tedious but like you said, it would be worthwhile.

I wish you would come and visit me whenever you're in Kuala Lumpur. I really would like to meet the Games Guru face to face.

Fyi, I live (Kuala Kangsar, Perak) about three hours drive (about 200Km) from Kuala Lumpur.

I know you'll be very busy, but I hope you'll point Kuala Kangsar as a place to visit.

See ya'. Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.

Hola ArahMan, if you want to use the registry cleaner again you'll need to search though all the keys that the cleaner has marked for deletion. This can be a tedious afair, but worthwhile. I'd create a restore point first.

Glad to hear you were able to find the previous back ups and return Starburn to a fully registered version.

I want to visit Malaysia some day. We have an old university friend who lives in Kuala Lumpur city, that we've promised we will visit one day. Maybe combine the journey with a trip to Thailand or Australia :)

Hola WhiteRabbit,

After finding high and low, I finally found the back-up registry and I got back my StarBurn v.12 registered.

A question, how do I avoid it from happening again should I decided to clean up the registry?

That's all for now and I thank you in advance.

Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.

Hola WhiteRabbit,

Come to think about it, yeah I did some registry cleaning awhile back but I don't know whether I did a back-up or not? I'm gonna check it up after posting this.

Thanks for the info. Do you mean that I can still use StarBurn v.12 after the eleventh day? That's good news. I can live without the program remote and blue ray ISO imaging, lol!

Greetings and lots of love from Malaysia.

My copy is still okay. Fully registered.

You haven't been using a registry cleaner recently - have you?

If you did hopefully you'll have created a backup of the registry..... just a though

Good news is that Starburn is given away fairly regularily and the freeware version is virtually the same as the registered version. I think the only difference is something to do with being able to use the program remotely and blue ray iso imaging

regards

WR

Hola Giveawayoftheday,

Downloaded StarBurn v.12 on May 29th, 2009 without any problem.

I was burning Prison Break last episode when I noticed I got 11 days left to use StarBurn v.12.

I was wondering why it was happening as though StarBurn v.12 didn't register itself when I installed it on the day it was given away? Has anyone else got this kind of problem? Does it mean after 11 days I could not used StarBurn v.12 anymore?

That's all for now.

An easy test for any of these type of programs - set you system clock forward a month (or six) and try to run the program again.

(Note if you have any time/date sensitive programs - like software currently under evaluation - it is a good idea to close it before changing your date - as some software gets confused when you set the system backwards to the correct date after the test).

Well, I've re-installed it and it seems to register fine again. The question is though; will it STAY registered? We'll just have to wait and see in the coming days.

I knew something was wrong with this one!!!
I tried to register it like 3 times the day it was offered, it kept giving me all kinds of issues and the damned registration would not "stick".

I really hope GOTD would get back to me on this.

Thank you all for your helpful info and thank you so much GOTD. All of you are very much appreciated!

Hi GOTD guys,

I am so glad that this is being rerun this week. I was disappointed to discover that it had unregistered.

Thank you for correcting the problem. You guys really are the best!

Have a great day.

Mary :)

Hello everybody!

We are planning the rerun of Reezaa MP3 converter this week. There was a bug in registration, that has been fixed.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Giveaway Of The Day project team