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By: Rickarde Hemapstampfingdom

Rickarde Hemapstampfingdom — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:49:06 +0000

When are we going to get something decent again… like the Visio-like diagramming tool ?

VENDORS -give up trying to sell antivirus, clean-up and converter utilities… why would you continue to waste your time squeezing blood out of turnips? There are 1001 free alternatives to any of those categories. Turn your development to some cool Web 2.0 stuff.

- Ric

By: tommy noone

tommy noone — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:59:03 +0000

I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I’ve tried everything setup as admin, activation as admin, rebooting. I get messages from GOTD saying its activated but when I open the program its does not show that it is registered. I have gone through it several times but same result. I am a great fan of GOTD but cant understand why the same registration problems keep re-ocurring. I have done exactly as the text instructions plus followed some tips from other posters. If that doesnt work then something must be wrong with the instructions. There has to be a better way. Looks like I’m almost out of time so this is one I’m not going to get in spite of repeated attempts

By: DocSid

DocSid — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:48:36 +0000

Well I’m having the same activation problems that lots of other people seem to be having. I ran the install as admin. Then ran the activate as admin. Then rebooted. Then started the program. It’s not registered. Win 7 Enterprise x64. Maybe it’s a 64 bit problem.

By: ajschmitz

ajschmitz — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:54:13 +0000

msconfig
1. Built in to windows
2. Free
3. Easy to use

Why install software to eliminate software…

By: edensafuans

edensafuans — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:35:33 +0000

sorry, i forgot to run as administrator. i didnt read comment no.48. the software successfully registered. im not stress anymore

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:04 +0000

Sorry Zards And Thank you fubar! Sysinternals Suite, update Oct 7, 2009, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
has me Gasping (trying to not giggle like a little girl). The ‘autoruns’ program within shows me stuff I doubt I’ve Ever seen, and I’ve done this a Long time. It appears to be portable, and lack a ‘suite GUI’ but this thing is SWEET.
Kudos to GOATD for keeping the pot boiling, whether I get the featured proggy or find a freeware GEM like this!

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:53:21 +0000

Thanks Mike. Activated fine when activate.exe run as administrator.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:01:15 +0000

#33: “I cannot get this program to show I am registered have tried several reinstalls following #16 i.e not running until after i run activation – only result is unregistered/trial.”

#43: “Still it give error not registred after running the activation…”

#44: “Installed on windows XP pro x64 Insists it’s not registered!”

Running Activate.exe adds a key & a couple of values to the registry under HKLM. In order to work Windows has to allow Activate.exe to add those entries, which means you need admin privileges, i.e. run as admin., if needed turn off A/V software etc. 64 bit Windows adds another section to the registry that’s not there with 32 bit… the developer’s site doesn’t say anything about 64 bit that I saw, so maybe it’s not 64 bit Windows compatible?

By: Doru

Doru — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:57:04 +0000

Probably work only for XP 32 biti.You ,like a beta tester will inform company for what they don’t test it.Up it not say :what XP or what Vista is working good.

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:52:58 +0000

Don’t bother.Use Spybot Search and Destroy that has build in a Start Up Protection by Default and provides Antispyware protection as well.