http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/activation Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: Activation - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:42:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67966 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:46:30 +0000 hotdoge3 67966@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/support/technical-support.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/support/technical-support.htm</a> (FAQ)</p> <p><a href="http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/s-28464961/cmd/kbresource/kb-6341657529542742174/view_question" rel="nofollow">http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/s-28464961/cmd/kbresource/kb-6341657529542742174/view_question</a>!PAGETYPE?sf=101133&amp;documentid=347125&amp;action=view</p> <p>If these steps do not fix the problem, then you will most likely need to set<br /> your Internet Security to Medium.<br /> that you do NOT have any protocols blocked that are required for your<br /> connection (for more specific information, see your network administrator). </p> <p>1) Turn Gaming Mode on in ZoneAlarm (Try this fist)</p> <p>Right Click the ZA icon in the System tray.</p> <p>Select Game Mode.</p> <p>Solution:</p> <p>The Privacy settings in ZoneAlarm may be blocking some features that this<br /> website needs to work properly, such as cookies, pop-ups and mobile code.</p> <p>Please understand by disabling the privacy settings, you are not disabling<br /> the firewall, it is only disabling the added feature of blocking cookies and<br /> advertisements.<br /> Now it will work. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67953 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:23:46 +0000 notblocklox 67953@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>@ bigmutt</strong></p> <p><blockquote>It&#39;s amazing that this has been a problem for so many people for seven months now, and still there&#39;s no solution???</blockquote></p> <p>To be honest, the problem that some users can&#39;t download or install or activate or use a programme is even older than 7 months. Fact is, that most of the thousands of users every day don&#39;t have severe or long lasting problems otherwise the site would be down since a long time.</p> <p><blockquote>So, NO ONE has figured out why some systems just won&#39;t install the darn program and others will??<br /> And I guess there&#39;s no technical know-how &amp; support from the actual operators of the Giveawayoftheday site??</blockquote></p> <p>Thinking of the fact that every system is unique, what form should the support take? Should the GOTD team check every system of all the thousands of users?</p> <p>Like WR wrote in the other thread, the fault and the solution is on your site.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67946 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:46 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 67946@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve stuck this to the front page of the Installation and Activation problems section seeing as we get similar posts being instigated on a regular basis. hopefully, suggestions will be found in the preceeding pages. :)</p> <p>W.R. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67945 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:23 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 67945@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The programs do come with a no tech support notice. :( </p> <p>Did you read my suggestion on the other thread that was started recently on this very same subject? Try clearing the internet cache on the computer ou&#39;re having problems with and see if that helps. It&#39;s only a suggestion. I&#39;ve had similar problems in the past and that fix worked. :)</p> <p>Good Luck</p> <p>W.R. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67936 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:01:36 +0000 bigmutt 67936@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>&quot;Failed to connect. Please try again later.&quot;</p> <p>It&#39;s amazing that this has been a problem for so many people for seven months now, and still there&#39;s no solution???</p> <p>My situation is this: the Giveaway programs ALWAYS install fine on three of my computers but NEVER install on a 4th (my main computer, actually) one.</p> <p>Doesn&#39;t matter which one downloads the program, it&#39;s always the same. Of course I&#39;ve tried turning off ZoneAlarm and antivirus programs, etc. but nothing helps.</p> <p>The OS of the one that does NOT install the program is XP Pro, SP3. But one of the other ones that DOES work is also the same OS. The other OSs are Vista and Win7; these work also.</p> <p>So, NO ONE has figured out why some systems just won&#39;t install the darn program and others will??</p> <p>And I guess there&#39;s no technical know-how &amp; support from the actual operators of the Giveawayoftheday site??</p> <p>Rick </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67753 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:53:34 +0000 watcher13 67753@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>jacampbelljr - this forum is run by the members rather than GOTD itself. They&#39;re not heavily engaged with what we do here. One of the forum members might take you up on looking at your activate, but probably not. These problem&#39;s are usually external to the wrapper. If you want feedback directly from GOTD, you need to go to the bottom of the GOTD page and click the contact link. Although, I&#39;m not sure they&#39;ll respond to this one. It&#39;s very likely on your end, since so many didn&#39;t experience problems with it.</p> <p>This issue has been dealt with many, many times in these forums. If you type something like &quot;won&#39;t activate&quot; in the search box you can see dozens and dozens of threads with dozens and dozens of suggestions as to how to procede if this happens in the future. Of course, there are some suggestions right above your post.</p> <p>Sometimes the problem is solved by using other download sources. Often, if people aren&#39;t getting a good download from the main link, they&#39;ll try the mirror link and they&#39;ll get a good one. Also, people have been able to get good downloads from the foreign language pages. GOTD has a bunch of them. You can see the drop down language menu right at the top of the page. Don&#39;t worry about the software then defaulting to the other language. The developer controls that and, as far as I know, only sends down one version. So it&#39;s either already in English or let&#39;s you select one of the languages it supports.</p> <p>Good luck in the future! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-67749 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:21:09 +0000 jacampbelljr 67749@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My post yesterday was ignored/deleted by the moderator?! I had a problem with the activate.exe with the HD Video Converter program yesterday. I was at work and thought it was due to the company firewall, but turns out it may have been a faulty download, since it didn’t work at home either. (Should have done like others in the past and deleted and re-downloaded.) Anyway, disappointed that the moderator didn’t post my comment or reply with the “Try again” suggestion before this offer expired – wouldn&#39;t you know it seems like it was the first one I really wanted in days. BTW, developer wasn’t much help either, just kept giving me the instructions to “click activate first, then install”. Gee, really! I know the offer has expired, but not sure why the activate.exe doesn&#39;t give me that response - still gives &quot;Failed to connect.&quot; Is it worth me sending you the activate.exe file so you can compare it to the original? That way we can rule in or our if it was a download/unzip problem. Thanks!!<br /> BTW, the file size for the Activate.exe is: 996 KB (1,020,700 bytes) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-66796 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:56:47 +0000 Wanderer7 66796@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, Violet4714. I&#39;ll look into this matter. First I&#39;ll have to know what is causing the unregistering.<br /> Wanderer7 </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-66719 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:26:04 +0000 hotdoge3 66719@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>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&#39;s not a reg or ccleaner that did this ? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-66684 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:32:39 +0000 Violet4714 66684@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hi, Wanderer7...</p> <p>welcome to the forums!...</p> <p>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...</p> <p>unregistering can be caused by many things, among them: registry cleaners; a &quot;rebranded&quot; 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&#39;m sure more that some geekier than me can better explain...</p> <p>the GOTD team &amp; the developers try to find a balance for us all in regard to registration keys...if we have a key for every giveaway &amp; can reinstall, the dev may lose upgrade sales after the giveaway/advertising of the software...no key &amp; registration doesn&#39;t &quot;stick&quot;, we may lose the chance to try a giveaway...not easy to balance, but the effort is there...</p> <p>i checked my &quot;Magnifying Glass Pro&quot; &amp; &quot;Chameleon Startup Manager&quot; giveaways, &amp; they are still registered...</p> <p>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...</p> <p>sorry to have rattled on, but hope to have helped explain a few things... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-66679 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:30:10 +0000 Wanderer7 66679@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Guys,<br /> I am new at this game and I have no idea, whether a 3-weeks-old stream can still be joined or not...<br /> Anyhow this &quot;unregistering&quot; 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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...</p> <p>Regards - from the Wanderer7 </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-66282 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:01 +0000 kempton 66282@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have had the same problem for several years. I today tried opening IE on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and kept it open while I clicked on activate.exe for today&#39;s download of the day. It worked! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6368#post-66231 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:43:30 +0000 hotdoge3 66231@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>under fix failure to register see full list at may be need some testing?</p> <p><a href="http://download.cnet.com/Returnil-Virtual-System-2010/3000-2239_4-10957906.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.cnet.com/Returnil-Virtual-System-2010/3000-2239_4-10957906.html</a></p> <p>Date added: October 12, 2009</p> <p><a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5451" rel="nofollow">http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5451</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/Returnil-Virtual-System-Premium-Edition.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/Returnil-Virtual-System-Premium-Edition.shtml</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6368#post-66155 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:49:27 +0000 hotdoge3 66155@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ram is ok 2000 MB CPU 2.400 MHz I go to fit most of the way then it rolls back say not work try let it pick a seting it pick Windows XP sp2 that is in Windows 7 &amp; Thank all for try to Help me </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6368#post-66149 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:50:25 +0000 judydog 66149@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi hotdodge3,I am using windows7 and returnil works with no problems,when i registered i got the request pending,done this before i rebooted,then a couple of mins later recieved a message through returnil saying that a new licence had been issued.There is one problem though the licence is only for 45 days,it then reverts back to the free version. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6368#post-66147 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:10:46 +0000 Txnnok 66147@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Return with the exception for the installation programs are all virtual and would be in your ram and cpu. You can try some stuff to lighten the load on your ram and cpu befoere running it, maybe like running that Iobit gamebooster before you run Returnil. </p> <p>here is what Returnnil lists</p> <p>Windows XP (32-bit/64-bit): </p> <p>CPU: 300 MHz or higher<br /> RAM: 128 MB </p> <p>Windows Vista (32-bit/64-bit): </p> <p>CPU: 800 MHz or higher<br /> RAM:<br /> 512 MB (without Aero® desktop)<br /> 1 GB (With Aero® desktop) </p> <p>Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit): </p> <p>CPU: 750 MHz or higher<br /> RAM: 128 MB </p> <p>Windows Server 2008 (32-bit/64-bit): </p> <p>CPU: 1 GHz or higher<br /> RAM: 512 MB </p> <p>Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit): </p> <p>CPU: 1 GHz or higher<br /> RAM: 1 GB<br /> ----------------------------------------------------------<br /> I would bet if turned off Aero before you used Returnil, you wouldnt have any problems or slap in another 512mb of ram. You might could try readyboost, that has more to with cache, bur it might lighten the load a tough. Its worth a try, especially since M$ made readyboost useful for Windows 7.<br /> -------------------------------------------<br /> just some thoughts<br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p><img src="http://www.iobit.com/Images/gb.jpg"></p> <p> Game Booster™ Freeware<br /> Highly Recommended by Most PC Gamers!<br /> <a href="http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html</a><br /> Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by defragmenting game directories, temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ and XP® ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business – gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level. All systems go! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6368#post-66144 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:48:15 +0000 hotdoge3 66144@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>can not fit at all on windows 7 try all ways that I can think of so try on XP OK but will not reg try it say Request pending Unregistered try a re boot no good.<br /> Help Please as the last one was very good Thanks!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6355#post-66047 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:34:04 +0000 HappyPerson 66047@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi tracy, the &quot;readme.txt&quot; instructions will give you guidance on this. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5159#post-65967 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:24:12 +0000 hotdoge3 65967@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If you try all try to go to GOTD now is it OK or very slow if it ok do a clean up and check to see if IE is off Line try with IE to GOTD is it OK, by the way if you take off IE with nLite it still works told you need IE so may be not?<br /> PS firewall setting and Firewall? some info may help turn firewall may stop all some firewalls are like that<br /> watcher13 most find GOTD work %100 I think it on the PC end just a setting over a year the last time GOTD was over load. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6355#post-65959 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:48:55 +0000 cavylover 65959@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Did anyone figure out how to activate the avs download of the day<br /> for 10/16?<br /> thanks</p> <p>tracy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6337#post-65768 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:42:57 +0000 Buzz 65768@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>run activate.exe </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6337#post-65766 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:55:11 +0000 Rodhea 65766@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have downloaded and installed the Startup Defender twice now and have not been able to find any place to obtain the registration code before the giveaway ends. Can anyone help? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6302#post-65474 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:47:07 +0000 Robert 65474@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Kathy,<br /> A big welcome to forum!<br /> Sorry to say this,but Avsvideo editor 4 never was a giveaway.<br /> The program featured as an ad next to the daily giveaway,at the time of your writing,Extra Video Creator.<br /> But I&#39;m sure we will be offered another video editor in the near future.<br /> :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6302#post-65446 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:32:11 +0000 Txnnok 65446@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I cant even get it to work properly. The user interface face only half way show and I cant find a place to enter the code either. It looks like all the buttons are there but and boxes are there but all color and that gives substance to a picture is gone.</p> <p>I have extra video converter pro from the last give away from them, I would think since it was the same company it would work with my computer, 64bit vista, but nope.</p> <p>On another website they say its a vista issue not a 64bit issue,some people it works just fine and others it doesn&#39;t.</p> <p>Is it doing a countdown? if not dont worry about it entering a code,<br /> is so maybe someone that isnt having problems will help before the giveaway is up.</p> <p>-------------------------------------------------------<br /> edit: Sorry I could be of more help </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6302#post-65445 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:56:46 +0000 Kathy Bodorkos 65445@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>avs todays giveaway no activation code </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6302#post-65444 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:55:42 +0000 Kathy Bodorkos 65444@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>please assist thanks Kathy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-65092 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:44:47 +0000 Txnnok 65092@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Doesn&#39;t GOTD pay these guys for their software?</p> <p>There&#39;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&#39;m pretty sure I put that program on there, so it reset. Then I&#39;ll know.<br /> The sata cords should be in any day now, so I&#39;ll keep ya&#39;ll posted.</p> <p>oh, wait the sata cord I robbed was for a slide external hard drive, that I dont have. I&#39;ll put back together tomorrow. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-65067 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:49:25 +0000 notblocklox 65067@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>That seems to be a severe problem.<br /> Maybe the GOTD team should contact the developer. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-65066 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:24:34 +0000 JerryP 65066@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>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 &amp; 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.</p> <p>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. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6264#post-65058 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:18:20 +0000 notblocklox 65058@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>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.<br /> Maybe your AV software did the same thing, or an update of flash smashed the registration. </p>