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1. 

   solarcat
   Member

   Like others who posted comments on today's page, I already had the previous GOTD release of 1AVCenter from April, 2010, and now I can’t get this new one to activate. After reading that those who tried uninstalling the old one first didn’t succeed, I just went ahead and installed the new one right over the top of the old one.

   Well, that didn’t work either. The activation program appeared to run correctly, but every time I run 1AVCenter now it says “Your trial period has EXPIRED.”

   Then I uninstalled the program and also manually deleted the /Program Files/1AVCenter folder. Then I reinstalled the new GOTD edition and ran the activator. Same result. The activator appears to run but the software is not activated. Yes, I ran both the setup and the activate "as Administrator."

   Now I’m left with zero working versions of 1AVCenter, when a few minutes ago at least I had the old one working.

   Will someone please step up and solve this problem?

   Posted 13 years ago #
2. 

   Ozzman62
   Member

   I also had a problem with the activation aspect of this program . No older version was installed and when I ran the activator it said successfully activated but the program remains in " Trial Mode " I think there is a problem with the activator itself .

   Posted 13 years ago #
3. 

   solarcat
   Member

   Update: For my latest and final attempt, I used Revo Uninstaller to uninstall. It found numerous registry entries left behind by the 1AVCenter uninstaller, which I deleted. Then I reran the new GOTD installation and activation.

   Still no joy. It still says the evaluation period has expired. What a bleeping waste of time. Ozzman62, I have to agree with you. There's some kind of problem with the activator. Though from the comments on the GOTD page, most folks who didn't have the previous version have no problem with this one. IDK. Frustrating. I hope the 1AVCenter folks will step up with some kind of offer to compensate us.

   Posted 13 years ago #
4. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   No problems on win7/32 bit over here,Solarcat.
   Make sure the program is closed before running activate.exe.
   (Or run activate first,like I did.)

   Posted 13 years ago #
5. 

   solarcat
   Member

   I did close the program before running activate.exe. I'm on Vista/32. The previous GOTD version from last April activated fine. This one doesn't.

   Posted 13 years ago #
6. 

   Ozzman62
   Member

   I've tried the recommended methods here for activation Solarcat , Uninstalled with Revo and ran a Registry clean up , Re-Installed as Admin and ran the Activation also as Admin .

   I had no previous version installed so that is not the issue as with your problem Solarcat .

   I am going to try as Robert suggested and run the activation first and see how that goes . If it works I'll let you know . Just as a thought @ SC . Did you go to program files and see if the install folder was deleted after running Revo ? If it is still there it might be the cause of the expired version message , Just a thought deleting it manually may remove any information left behind by the old installation .

   Posted 13 years ago #
7. 

   Ozzman62
   Member

   Well...I tried everything Gents to no avail , Sorry I couldn't help solve the issue . thanks for your suggestion Robert I tried you method also thanks for trying to help :)

   Guess it's up to the people at 1AV to fix this one .

   Posted 13 years ago #
8. 

   Buzz
   Member

   It adds a line to win.ini that must be removed. (don't recall what, as I uninstalled it this morning, but it's only a few characters.)

   Posted 13 years ago #
9. 

   Lester (Chip)
   English Mod

   I had this before and uninstalled it now got it again no problem at all...running vista/32

   Posted 13 years ago #
10. 

    LS22153
    Member

    Just like the posters above and other GOTD users who gave up trying to activate 1AV Center offered on Jan 1, 2011, I have spent over 3 hours attempting to unsuccessfully activate the 1AV Center offered. Needless to say, I no longer have my previously activated copy of 1AV Center which was offered by GOTD in 2010 and neither do I have the program offered today (yesterday).

    I uninstalled, cleaned up the registry, even deleted PCwinsoftbar.ocx in System32, rebooted PC, reinstalled today's giveaway, activated it, and still, I am left with an EXPIRED Evaluation Version of 1AV Center !!!

    I wish PC Winsoft would have made it very clear to owners of 1AV Center previous versions NOT to install this new version else loosing access to all. Very disappointed with PC winsoft.

    Posted 13 years ago #
11. 

    copmom
    Member

    LS22153.. perhaps if you do a system restore prior to uninstalling your prior version maybe you can get it back again? I've successfully done that with other things like that.

    Posted 13 years ago #
12. 

    Robert
    StrayCat

    Good thinking Copmom.
    I suppose a system restore (or a reg restore) and running setup of the previous giveaway version once again might do the trick.(...unless it was encrypted)
    Provided you still have that one... :(

    Posted 13 years ago #
13. 

    Anonymous
    Unregistered

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811270

    Delete Registry Key make a backup to be safe, I show the one for XP but it be the same.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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