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Fabricio20

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[Trial] Expiration Date Upon Restart
« on: June 05, 2016, 08:55:09 PM »
Two of my friends experienced this problem where they downloaded the software and opened it up, once they tried, they had a problem with Windows Voice Packs, which required a restart, upon restart, they weren't able to open up VoiceAttack again because they would end up on a Trial Expired screen, even thought they barely had it on their PC for one hour.

This will obviously get fixed by purchasing the key, but it's hard to convince them when they didn't even try the app.

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Re: [Trial] Expiration Date Upon Restart
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2016, 09:24:53 PM »
There is an issue with the trial dates.  They need to put Windows' language/locale back to whatever it was whenever they first ran VoiceAttack.

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Re: [Trial] Expiration Date Upon Restart
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2016, 09:16:00 AM »
Gary, possibly a silly suggestion, but could this be a solution?

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Re: [Trial] Expiration Date Upon Restart
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2016, 10:33:11 AM »
Actually, that's what I'm using :(

The problem is that it's persisting in one (unknown) culture and then reading back from another (unknown) culture.  I can change it to persist always in, say, US I suppose.  I was thinking I should just do that but it would result in some level of chaos for a bit...  Now that I think about it, that might not be so bad now that I'm feeling better o_O
The other option was to just go to an entirely new format, but that would require dropping the old format and also causing a giant loophole in the trial (not that an unlimited trial hasn't crossed my mind).

As always, thanks for looking out for me ;)


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Re: [Trial] Expiration Date Upon Restart
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2016, 01:17:41 PM »
The new beta is out on the site.  It may fix your issue (well... I'm hoping it will fix your issue).  It may reset your trial time, so don't panic ;)