http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4701 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Anyone Else Have GOTD Programs that Suddenly Unregister? en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:48:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4701#post-50192 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:37:20 +0000 Cacophony 50192@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi GeekGrrl,</p> <p>I started a thread about General Knowledge Base becoming unregistered (<a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4548" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4548</a>) a few weeks ago. To make a long story short, the program was sold to a new owner, who confirmed that the key we received from GOTD had an expiration date. BuBBy (a forum Administrator), can give you more information about this if you PM him.</p> <p>As a result of my contact with the new owner of General Knowledge Base (now known as GeneralKB) about this problem, they offered GOTD users a 70% off discount on the new version 2.5 (GOTD was v 2.4) through January 31, 2009. BuBBy posted about it here: <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4651" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4651</a></p> <p>Below are the instructions for the GOTD users 70% off discount on GeneralKB 2.5:</p> <p>To Order - visit <a href="http://generalkb.com/order/" rel="nofollow">http://generalkb.com/order/</a><br /> Please use '69C20509' coupon code (without quotes).<br /> This discount is valid through January 31, 2009. </p> <p>I purchased a license for GeneralKB 2.5, as I've found it to be useful for research projects and cataloging a variety of things. The new company, Astersoft Co. Ltd, is very responsive, if you have questions or need help with the software. </p> <p>Other than General Knowledge Base, I haven't had any other giveaways become unregistered. BTW, Liquid Story Binder XE is one of my favorite giveaways. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4701#post-50188 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:37 +0000 hotdoge3 50188@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes I just put in the number and it OK </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4701#post-50183 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:31:09 +0000 RunesageMagik 50183@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Geekgrrl</strong>, it's politically incorrect to talk about this transient yet incredibly frustrating glitch... <strong>but</strong> it has happened to others (incl. yours truly, with GenKnowledgebase and other apps).<br /> Sadly, it seems to occur too infrequently to ping the radar of the boys behind the curtain, and worse, some posters have a kneejerk habit of implying you're to blame, without offering any solutions.<br /> Personally, I suspect an overly aggressive reg cleaner (or a user who INADVERTENTLY okays the deletion of a cryptic "problem" entry); although in one case I know for certain another program's sloppy uninstaller removed something it shouldn't have. (a shared dll, perhaps)<br /> Once it's gone, it's gone, per the Draconian rules of Narnia.<br /> FWIW, I recall a flurry of complaints about General Knowledgebase, maybe here-<br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3280" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3280</a><br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4548" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4548</a></p> <p>BTW - thanks for the heads up on Liquid Story Binder's 50% off dealie. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4701#post-50181 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:51:43 +0000 GeekGrrl 50181@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I've had this happen twice now, different computers. Fortunately both were programs I didn't use that much. The latest is General Knowledge Base on Windows Vista. I opened it tonight and it comes up asking if I want to register this and the header now says UNREGISTERED. I know it was registered properly because I had used it multiple times, just not recently. (I haven't done anything that would cause it to become unregistered, such as trying to upgrade.) The first program I had a problem with was with Wondershare's Movie Story GAOTD (sic) Version on my Windows XP computer. I had never used that one, but when I opened it again a few weeks after installing, it said it was not registered.</p> <p>Is anyone else had this problem? </p>