by Sam Cox » Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:02 pm
Hi SPsweetie,
NeoPaint and many other commercial and shareware applications permit potential buyers to evaluate for only a short time -- 30 days is typical. After the evaluation period, the evaluation copy won't run except, perhaps, to let you know how and where you can purchase the product.
Many evaluation versions record the date of installation in the registry so that if uninstalled and later reinstalled, the program remembers the date of the first installation and counts the number of remaining evaluation days from that date.
Is it possible that you installed an evaluation version of NeoPaint before -- more than 30 days ago -- and are now wanting to evaluate it again? Perhaps someone else with access to your computer installed the evaluation version.
(Edited by Sam Cox at 1:27 am on Nov. 29, 2003)