http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/setupexe Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: setup.exe - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:31:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9695#post-90835 Tue, 10 May 2011 10:55:27 +0000 BuBBy 90835@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In some cases the developers of the software might only agree to participate on the condition that the period permitting the software to be installed is limited to 24 hours. The current system is how the GOTD team provide for such a restriction.</p> <p>Should users try to abuse or bypass this, those developers will likely move towards activation based on their own servers - which means they can disable the GOTD codes when the giveaway has finished. (Or just avoid GOTD altogether).</p> <p>As anyone who has been around GOTD for a few years will know - 9 out of 10 giveaways that are reliant on developers emailing individual codes, or activating on their own servers results in epic fail - usually because they cannot cope or haven&#39;t planned for the volume of registrations. Imagine if every second day we had one of &quot;those&quot; giveaways.</p> <p>Be satisfied with the Giveaway that is provided. In six months (or whenever) you decide you cannot live without the program - if it is really that good - just go register it, or find a freeware/open source alternative.</p> <p>Remember the other side of the equation - getting to use commercial software for free through giveaways, is that if the software is good, and you continue to use it - you should support the developers who wrote it - and buy a license (and be eligible for the latest versions and support).</p> <p>Many of the developers who participate with GOTD aren&#39;t big companies like Microsoft, but they are just individuals working &amp; trying to earn a dollar to put food on their tables and to look after their families. </p> <p>Instead of trying to work out ways to screw them and get around the system that is in place to give them a &quot;fair go&quot;, if their software is so good that you need to reinstall after you reformat of buy a new PC - then spend a few dollars and register the software with them.</p> <p>If the software really is too expensive - talk to the developers, sometimes there is something you can do for them - perhaps for a discount or even an entirely free license.<br /> - Translating the software into a new language<br /> - Correcting Language / Spelling in the Program or on their site.<br /> - Write a review of the software and publish it on their blog.<br /> - Design new icons or a logo for the program.<br /> - Help with the documentation or write tutorials on using the program.<br /> - Beta test and provide good feedback to the developer<br /> - Make useful suggestions on ideas for new features.<br /> - Ideas for new programs.<br /> - and lots of other things that help.</p> <p>So no, giveawayoftheday.com doesn&#39;t think that reinstalling old giveaways is okay. In the long run it can be very destructive and damaging to the prospects of some developers from participating - and by not supporting software developers (at least the better ones) makes it a little harder for them to stay motivated to release more of the software that we like. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9695#post-90785 Mon, 09 May 2011 01:57:55 +0000 notblocklox 90785@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Gibbster, please read the FAQ <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/</a> and the <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/about/">About</a> to understand how Giveawayoftheday is working.</p> <p>On a legal way it is not possible, to re-install the giveaways outside of the 24 hour window.<br /> A violation of the terms of use is like pirating and stealing the software.</p> <p>I hope you understand and accept that.</p> <p><blockquote>Terms and conditions</p> <p>Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations: 1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.</blockquote></p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9695#post-90784 Mon, 09 May 2011 01:35:37 +0000 Gibbster 90784@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>How to get the setup.exe for use again again ofcourse only personal use. Any words on is this okay with giveawayoftheday.com?</p> <p>I just wanted info on it from giveawayoftheday.com are they okay with people doing this?</p> <p>Thanks for your time </p> <p>Andy </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-86257 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:11:37 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 86257@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Mike,</p> <p>The giveaway must be downloaded and installed on the day of the giveaway (within the 24 hour period from the start of the giveaway). As Graylox points out; if you miss the giveaway period you will then have to wait till it&#39;s rerun (assuming that it will rerun) or purchase the software. you can always try contacting the developer of software you&#39;d really like to try explaining that you missed the giveaway. Some developers can be quite generous, but don&#39;t assume they are going to give you anything, or even reply to your emails. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-86255 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:03:39 +0000 notblocklox 86255@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You can defer an installation until it&#39;s rerun by GOTD (Giveaway of the <strong>D</strong>ay).</p> <p>Otherwise <strong>No</strong>:</p> <p>Please read the terms and conditions!</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/">Installation / Re-installation</a></p> <p>Happy vacation!<br /> graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-86248 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:43:59 +0000 mike37 86248@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>Can we defer the installation of a program offered by Giveaway of the Way ? </p> <p>I&#39;m on vacation this week !</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-84751 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:45:58 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 84751@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Make sure you run as Admin as well. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-84750 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:44:03 +0000 hotdoge3 84750@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Vista SP2: ShellExecuteEx failed; code 1155<br /> Hi,</p> <p>if I execute a setup as an user without adminrights I get:<br /> ShellExecuteEx failed; code 1155<br /> This happens if the setup extracts some file with name *.tmp and tries to<br /> run them.<br /> <a href="http://www.winvistatips.com/vista-sp2-shellexecuteex-failed-code-1155-a-t420142.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.winvistatips.com/vista-sp2-shellexecuteex-failed-code-1155-a-t420142.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://club.myce.com/f59/vso-installation-error-message-214842/" rel="nofollow">http://club.myce.com/f59/vso-installation-error-message-214842/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.vistax64.com/vista-security/235820-vista-sp2-shellexecuteex-failed-code-1155-a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vistax64.com/vista-security/235820-vista-sp2-shellexecuteex-failed-code-1155-a.html</a></p> <p>now to lifestylesm Try a clean like CCleaner or go to run &#39; %temp% &#39; &amp; Delete may be more time be for runing setup.exe firewall ? A-V ? AntiSpyware ? ThreatFire? some info may help is it XP Vista Win 7 Win98 ? did you click unlock ? IE off line &amp; close IE Firefox be for setup </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-84748 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:30:30 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 84748@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I wrote something on ShellExecute problems a couple of months ago. Dig through threads started on my profile page. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-84744 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:34:42 +0000 tar333 84744@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Getting ShellExecute Execute failed: code 1155<br /> Have been getting this error for over a month on everything that I try to install. Please help. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-10449 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:22:05 +0000 maz 10449@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Lifestylesm,<br /> I'm afraid I can't help with your IE problem, as I use Firefox all the time now. I've rarely had problems downloading from this site (from the mirror link) with this browser.<br /> Hope someone can be more help to you. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-10444 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:01:23 +0000 lifestylesm 10444@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I've closed down all other programs when I clicked on setup. I tried using the task manager and that didn't help. As for Alt-Tab, I haven't tried. I'll have to try when I get home from work. Thanks for replying BuBBy. If there are any other suggestions that would be great, I feel so lost.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Lifestylesm </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-10409 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:47:21 +0000 BuBBy 10409@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Can you get to the "other" running setup.exe by using either Alt-Tab or Task Manager to switch to them?</p> <p>Have you tried closing down all the other programs (including your browser) between running activate and setup? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1666#post-10406 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:41:45 +0000 lifestylesm 10406@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I'm new to GAOTD, and I'm having a hard time downloading any of the giveaways. The past 2 days I tried to download the programs given and can't get past the setup. I download the the program, I extract all the files, I double click on activate, it confirms that I have activated it and then my IE comes up with GAOTD page comes up and says to sign up for the newsletter. After that I go back and double click on Setup.exe and nothing happens. I right click on the Setup.exe and click run as: and a dialog box comes up and says run with current admin, I click yes and then an error box comes up and says Setup.exe is already running. But I can't get to the installation part of these programs. Please help, am I doing something wrong? Or is there another way I need to be downloading these programs? Or am I destined to miss out on these great and wonderful programs? =(</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Lifestylesm </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-8066 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:25:35 +0000 BuBBy 8066@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>No. It's more to do with what "came with" the setup from the giveaway developer - that wasn't set up. Thats all. You didn't miss out on anything. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-8059 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:50:14 +0000 kevinyunlai 8059@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>haha<br /> I think I know what you mean...... :)<br /> software wrapper and that is it </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7971 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:07:25 +0000 Archangel 7971@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You must have already discovered it then. Didn't want to post it in public so that a mistake could be fixed and in the future.... I waited for several days to see if anyone picked up on it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7960 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:31:11 +0000 BuBBy 7960@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>No. Not really. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7958 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:04:24 +0000 Archangel 7958@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the replies and I know your wondering why I asked. LOL </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7948 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:58:42 +0000 BillW50 7948@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Since they are usually of two types, my guess is that GAOTD puts them together in their wrapper. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7947 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:57:49 +0000 BuBBy 7947@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>GOTD sometimes wrap their installer around the one supplied by the software developers.</p> <p>I doubt if either party would have time to create an full installer specifically for GOTD every day. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1338#post-7944 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:31:41 +0000 Archangel 7944@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Who actually assembles and creates GOTD's setup.exe for software and games. Is it up to the software developer to do it or does GOTD do it after the software is submitted? </p>