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RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by ape4 »

kburman wrote: post #7
1f60c wrote: post #3

When would this be useful?

Run some trail software forever.

But not all, the author says: I get many email messages that say something like "I tried to extend the trial period of xyz software with RunAsDate and it didn't work". Running a software with different date/time can be used for many legitimate purposes and for these purposes RunAsDate was created. I have never said implicitly or explicitly that RunAsDate can be used for extending the trial period of a software. For some shareware programs, RunAsDate might really work, but many shareware creators are smart enough to detect that the date/time was modified and when they detect the time change, they end the trial period immediately. Please don't bother yourself to send me a question about extending the trial period of a software, because these kind of messages are simply deleted without answering.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by lanerobertlane »

I'd just like to use this comment to show appreciation of Nirsoft's stuff. Great useful single function utilities for practically anything, for free, without any catch.

Many times I've needed to do something that seems simple but isn't exposed easily, and rather than figure it out myself there's a gui or cli app that just does exactly what I need.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by tgtweak »

Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library).

Really, the only other (windows) applications I can sing the same praise for are the sysinternals suite.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by kazinator »

1f60c wrote: post #3

When would this be useful?

You might be able to obtain reproducible behavior from a tool that insists on putting time stamps into its output, and has no options for reproducibility.

You might be able to get an indefinite extension for running some time-limited trialware.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by artiszt »

tgtweak wrote: post #14

Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library). Real…

agreed. on that platform, forced to use it, NirSoft is indispensable and like an much appreciated breeze of fresh air -- much like Hexfiend and alike, Filebuddy, and BBEdit were already under Apple's Classic OS
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