From: "Geo." 

Was it the computer date that stopped the installation or was it an
activation requirement that is no longer possible?

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45a50946$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've got a program that will lie to programs like that and make it think
> its whatever date you want.  I think it can be setup to lie to a program's
> installer, but not positive of that.  This program does its lying without
> changing the system date globally.  I haven't ever tried it yet, but its
> from the same folks that do the resplendent registrar registry editor that
> is really excellent (especially the older version 2 of their free version)
> because it allows you to take ownership of keys and change permissions
> right from the editor in a manner that is not possible or more useful than
> regedit or regedt32, and its find/search functions are far superior to
> regedit and regedt32.
>
> Their lie program will also do lying about operating system, tell a
> program its running from a CD drive when its running from the hard disk,
> etc.
>
> Gary
>
> John Beamish wrote:
>> The quote that caught my eye ws "The reader first became aware of the
>> problem when Intuit's sunset policies forced one of his customers to
>> upgrade their version of Quickbooks. "
>>
>> I have a microbusiness so my accountant said use a spreadsheet or, if
>> you're feeling adventurous, use QB but it's far more than you need.  I
>> was feeling adventurous (sigh).
>>
>> A couple of years later I got a call from Intuit.  They were sunsetting
>> my version and told me that I'd have to upgrade.  I asked a few questions
>> and one response was "As of [can't remember the date], you will not be
>> able to reinstall QB if the need should arise."
>>
>> I use a spreadsheet now.
>>
>> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:39:04 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> MS conspiracy or idiotic accounting vendors? I vote for the latter
>>>
>>>
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/01/accounting_vend.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  "I have two clients using multi-user network accounting
packages," the
>>> reader wrote. "One uses Quickbooks, the other uses
Peachtree. In both
>>> cases
>>> upgrades to newer versions of each accounting package required I set up
>>> either a peer system or a dedicated server with Windows, and move away
>>> from
>>> the Linux servers I'd set up for both. The reason? Both Intuit and Sage
>>> Software now use .NET to develop these applications, and both are,
>>> according
>>> to their support staff, complying with Microsoft standards for their
>>> backend
>>> database components -- components which won't work on non-Microsoft
>>> network
>>> servers."
>>>

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