Anyone know of Accelerent?

[danellebreo]

Hi guys,
A friend of mine use to use a program named accelerent. It is a msdos program and it is ran on windows 95. I know its ancient. Recently a window now pops out stating that it needs to be registered. The big problem is the company went bankrupt and he got the program years ago. I've been browsing online, but have gotten nothing about the program. I'm thinking if its windows 95 or if it uses dos, there has to be a way to by pass the registration. It gives me a code and tells me to call a number. Seems like a classic keygen situation. I know you guys are thinking why deal with the head ache and just scrap it already. Well the big problem is it has a lot of information from the business that is crucial. So if anyone knows of the program and could help, or if anyone could give me some feed back to maybe get around it that would be great.

P.S It says type in code to do a trial, but when you type in the code and push enter it says that the 30 day trial has ended and just exits. I've already tried restarting a couple years and it does me no good.

 

[digitalprospecter]

If by 'restarting a couple of years' you mean that you changed the date on your computer back to two years ago to trick the computer into thinking it is still in the trial period it likely wouldn't work unless you happened to hit upon that 30 day trial date range window from when the program was installed until it ran out, even then a flag might already be tripped regardless of date. You could check the data files associated with the program to determine the last date modified and set your computer date to a few days before. That might work.

Also, to remain inside the law (even on a bankrupt company) if you have the original trial install, you could install on a different computer and move the data files over to it.

 

[danellebreo]

thanks for a reply. I have tried that and managed to get the trial working on the software, but the trial will only give you limited access to the software. It seems like the software is so hard to crack even though it was made years ago. I mean we have the software on many different cd's it just needs to be activated, but thats not possible in anyway, due to the fact that you can activate a software that the company no longer exists.

 

[digitalprospecter]

Yes... true. Almost the only way to solve that would be to luck upon someone who had a registered copy in the past and still knows their activation code, and even then it might require verification from a non existent company. The proverbial rock and a hard place!

Good luck!