Stephen Bennett,

I'm suspecting, in this case, that will depend on Qiling, & that the answer would be no. Thinking that a registration may be granted, or denied, from their end, their server, & is likely only going to be valid today.

Help mentions entering the registration on install, & also mentions the lack of network connection condition, so thinking install needs to talk to them, giving them the ability to limit the GAOTD provided registration to only working, say today, & not tomorrow.

Stephen Bennett, I'd say that in 99 percent of cases you cannot reinstall any given GOTD app once the offer date has expired.

Only a tiny proportion of the GOTD apps that I've installed have come with credentials (username, registration key, or whatever) that enable the app to be reinstalled and registered once that day has passed.

If, for example, you have a disk crash or need to reinstall the operating system or even just the app itself, unfortunately you're out of luck.

While one can see the from the perspective of the software vendor not wanting to provide publicly-accessible permanent software keys, I reckon that this is the Achilles Heel of Giveaway of the Day -- or maybe you should call it the Achilles Hell of GOTD. :-(

Tony Austin, yes, my experience is in line with yours in that almost all, if not all, of software offered on the GOTD site cannot be re-installed at a timer later than when it was offered. To my mind, that is not a true giveaway, as it can, in effect, be taken back, by preventing potentially necessary re-installation at a later date. For many months my daily go-to site for full version software is Giveaway Radar http://giveawayradar.weebly.com/ where several full version quality softwares are given away daily without restriction.

Tony Austin, In this particular case should you have a disk crash or need to reinstall the operating system, assuming you've been using this software to take regular image backups you could instead just restore from a recent backup, in which case this, along with any other installed software, will be restored in fully installed and licensed state.

Hi Terry S. :-)

Yes, it was "Dayu Disk Master".
Versions 2.2.7 and 2.8.2 were given away on this website.

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More: http://www.idiskhome.com/index.php/help/pre_os

Switch the status of Pre-OS between Enable and Disable by clicking Enable/Disable Pre-OS under the tools page. The name of the button depends on the current status of Pre-OS. If Pre-OS is currently enabled, the button will be Disable Pre-OS.

Once the Pre-OS enabled, you will get a boot menu which has our product listed. Select it and you can use our product before Windows starts to load.

Pre-OS can be considered as a simple OS environment, in which you can use our product without system login or a system emergency disk. It is useful in various cases, especially when the operating system fails to boot. Logging into the Pre-OS environment and recovering from a previous image will resolve the problem easily.

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Neat!
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More: http://www.idiskhome.com/index.php/help/fixboot

If your computer has not booted, you can use this function.

First, you need into Pre-OS, then run the Fixboot.

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This implies that Qiling Disk Master offers to load from a boot menu and provide it's tools for repair of a computer that cannot boot to the Operating System otherwise.

Neat!
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Peter Blaise,

"What is "Enable PreOS""

With apologies for the length of the explanation...

Backup & partitioning software often lets you create a bootable USB stick or CD/DVD that includes a version of that software. In order to boot it has to include a minimal OS, usually Linux or Microsoft's WinPE. These types of software, particularly partitioning apps, also use the same minimal OS when tasks have to be performed outside of Windows --- on restart the device automatically boots into that OS so files normally used by Windows can be moved or replaced, the difference being that OS is copied somewhere on the hard drive rather than using removable media. When you "Enable PreOS" [or similar wording] that mini-OS is added to a boot menu -- it may use the existing Windows boot menu, as I believe QUILING does, or it may add a boot menu that loads before that, & it may use a hot key to activate it.

Using Windows ADK [Assessment and Deployment Kit] you can add WinPE to a USB stick, CD/DVD, VHD, to your hard drive etc. yourself -- I didn't find QUILING's online documentation clear [it's maybe older], but it looks like you have to download the ADK anyway to use WinPE with the app. You'd use something like EasyBCD to add it to Windows boot menu -- that menu's already there, but if you have just one OS (Windows) to boot to, displaying that boot menu is likely turned off.

Note: Their docs refer to the AIK, which is older. Note 2: From what I've read on Microsoft's site, it's preferred to use the latest version of WinPE, currently for Windows 10 Anniversary Update, regardless the version of Windows you're using. Note 3: If you have a Windows setup disc or USB stick you can use that instead. Note 4: whether you use something like QUILING or set it up yourself, WinPE provides you with a command prompt or command line rather than a desktop GUI.

msdn[.]microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/winpe-intro

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mike, thanks -- Qiling seems to offer a unique benefit in adding a hard-drive boot option of Qiling WinPE, useful in emergencies when WIndows itself fails to boot.

The option worked immediately on my 864 PC without asking for any other resources ( such as AIK ) ... though I have not rebooted to test it ).
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mike,

If you are the "mike" that's been replying with common sense as well as thoughtful insight for many years, then yet again I say ... 'thanks to you' for this learned (pronounced:learn + ed) contribution.

I wasn't entirely certain, especially as I am yet to move to WiNDOWS 10.

I would also like to say thanks for your reply to my posting #2

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Mememe, where was your computer built?

;-)

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Peter Blaise, my house with my hands and my tools. I'll pass also.

Peter Blaise, I would say Vietnam like most laptops

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ilikefree, then software from China should be right at home, right?
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Mike OD, my point is to highlight unreasoned and inconsistent prejudice -- I have found unique benefits from solutions from programmers in countries supposedly "untrustworthy", perhaps we can encourage world peace through world trade.
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Adrian, almost every high-tech item I depend on has something made in China, from which I order items directly, by the way ( AliExpress, and even Amazon ).

I also have a Chinese friend who said, without any sense of irony, that, as a fully-employed American, they are confident their job will never be taken over by the Chinese.

So, what's the worry?
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Adrian, a lot of stuff is made in china but not developed in china

Peter Blaise, I built it myself

Mememe, and yes mobo is tiawan. Not china.

clas,
Surely it's their ability to write software we should be judging rather than their ability to write English.

“You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills.”
Leonardo da Vinci. (a bad speller)

clas,

"hard to have faith in a product when they cant even write a correct description in english."

Well... If your criteria is American English, Acronis is pretty much it --- somewhat expensive with a Very heavy impact on Windows. If you'll accept British English, Macrium is excellent, but not cheap by any means. Paragon is in Germany -- I like their stuff, many don't, & I find their new v.16 a bit buggy [they're giving it away until November BTW]. EaseUS & AOMEI, both VERY popular, are also in China.

Clas, you cannot use cant without the '. That is simply not a correct English expression. You forgot the capitalization on your first word. "just not worth it" is missing subject and verb.

mike,
You forgot to mention AOMEI backup programs, they work.
Recently an uninstall of a program it also uninstalled a great deal of my Windows files for some reason.
Finished up with a brick rather than an OS.
Using AOMEI Pro restored just my C drive, my system drive, no programs no data they are on a different drive.
All was well again.

kevin, I a gee Know good English Know good progamm. I's going to get a samich now.

notperfect,

Thanks for your remarks, you saved me from writing something similar. If "a correct description in english" is the criteria, then we can't rely on most of the reviews from users or potential users on this site, 'Mericun or not.

I'm happy with understandable english from anybody, that's usually the best I can do. How well do these people that require "correct" english write in any other language. Thought so.

Owe well

Steve,

Norton here didn't make a peep. Odd, that.

Steve, Norton thinks everything is "dangerous." I've sent perfectly clean documents to Norton users who freak because "it's a virus."

LaMoi, Well not for me. I do this every time I see something here that I am interested in. This is the first time this has happened. So it is kinda weird. I have never had problems with Norton (and have been using it for years), no matter what "others" think about it, I will keep being cautious about warnings like this.
Cheers.

Peter C1, I too am interested in purchasing the product and would greatly appreciate a discount code. Perhaps the developer will monitor comments. On second reading, I even appreciate your comment concerning version 4.

Peter C1,

"I have read the website and see that the program License is Per PC, NOT Per USER, although it would be useful if the program could be installed onto a USB Memory Key or SD HC/XC or MicroSD HC/XC memory card."

Most software licenses are limited to one install in one copy of Windows. In my experience one PC is usually interpreted to mean one copy of Windows, so nothing unusual there at all.

As far as removable media goes... backup & partitioning apps install drivers to be able to fully function in Windows, & because of those drivers cannot ever be fully portable -- you can use a script [e.g. AutoIt] to install drivers, then remove them when the app closes, but I've only seen that Very rarely done. You can also *sometimes* get them to work portably but without full function.

That said, most [including QILING Disk Master Pro] let you create bootable USB sticks/CDs/DVDs, so there's always that option.

Peter C1, I shouldn't think anyone's still reading this page but on the offchance they are, here's a heads-up: version 4 is now out, and the policy seems to be that the GOTD license is not valid for the upgrade. To be honest, I couldn't see any obvious advantages that v4 gave over v3.9.2, so I was happy to use it to restore from my pre-upgrade backup and revert to the fully licensed 3.9.2 version.

jacksonX, how is this related to the above giveaway? The giveaway today is a whole toolbox...

Your Teacher, You build a toolbox one tool at a time.......

jacksonX,

"AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a free partition manager ... it can help us to copy disk, copy partition, migrate OS"

Actually if you're going to use just one app I think you're better off to focus on a disk/partition image backup program, in your case being a fan of AOMEI, their Backupper app. 1st you should never do anything with partitions without performing a complete backup beforehand, & 2nd, once you have the partition(s) backed up, you can restore them anywhere, e.g. to a new drive, to a different sized partition etc.

If you don't have experience with Backupper, maybe give it & QILING Disk Master Pro a try, & see which you like best?

jacksonX, it isn't even in the same class with gparted, which is absolutely free, and extremely powerful, and easy to use:
http://gparted.org/download.php

Bob Smith,

Like your sense of humor. There are reasons to be suspicious of an unknown Company that tries to be all things to all computers.

Matt, there are lots of reasons to be suspicious of even known companies. Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that certain countries in Europe-Asia who are not friendly towards the US put backdoors and spyware/keyloggers into their software hoping people install them and they can gain access to our PCs when the time comes. Some governments of some of those countries actively fund companies to do this. Fortunately I think GAOTD has had a perfect track record of not offering any malicious programs, but such programs do exist in large quantities on the Internet if you go to the wrong sites.

Even with GAOTD's scanning, I typically only install giveaways from the largest, most well known companies that frequently offer software here. I would never install these on my own from just any old site on the Internet, but I continue to hope that GAOTD scans these programs very carefully for backdoors and keylogger type software, assuming backdoors are even possible to detect.

This is a totally independent comment and has nothing to do with this software or company specifically. I'm just saying that trust is hard to come by, and we must be very careful installing software from both known and unknown companies. The bigger the company and the more information about them they provide, the less the chance of having problems.

Terry,

I made a cautionary comment about a single company, without a known track record, that may be trying to pack too much into one test run making difficult to know if all parts of their offering work as expected in a timely manner. That triggered the GOTD not trusting manifesto?