I know were in the regestry the program is but I cannot find the time bomb/ grace period ect whatever you wanna call it. The program is Indesign CS2 and Incopy CS2
It is pretty technical finding the key that has the expiration date, and the more expensive the software the harder to defeat. Microsoft has a program called dependency walker that identifies and displays everything that is referenced by the host executable you select. If your willing to invest the time, using this program, you could find the file or registry key that is checked before the program runs. It may be a classid which will have a 128bit encrypted value. Beyond finding it, there’s to many possibilities of how it is used to tell you any more. You will need a hex editor to search for matches to this value which will probably be in one of the files loaded when the program starts, but it could be almost anywhere.
Be aware, that attempting to defeat the trial period date is probably illegal.
It is pretty technical finding the key that has the expiration date, and the more expensive the software the harder to defeat. Microsoft has a program called dependency walker that identifies and displays everything that is referenced by the host executable you select. If your willing to invest the time, using this program, you could find the file or registry key that is checked before the program runs. It may be a classid which will have a 128bit encrypted value. Beyond finding it, there’s to many possibilities of how it is used to tell you any more. You will need a hex editor to search for matches to this value which will probably be in one of the files loaded when the program starts, but it could be almost anywhere.
Be aware, that attempting to defeat the trial period date is probably illegal.