The oddest question ever

[totig]

Before I get to that, is it possible to search the message boards? OK, the question. How do you speed up the expiration on the valuation copy of VS2003? Its going to end at the end of the month, but I want it to expire sooner. Its a long story why, but try using your imagination as to why anyone would want to do this.

[Ian Darling]

toticow wrote: but try using your imagination as to why anyone would want to do this. Because you've discovered a way of creating a perpetual motion machine through strangely incomprehensible actions involving an evaluation copy of VS.NET. Maybe something to do with a Managed C++ template meta-program that is infinitely recursive and will only run when VS.NET expires :-D Well, you did say to use your imagination.... (Reminder to self: Never try to type VS.NET when drunk, as it comes out as VS.NEWT) -- Ian Darling

[Jon Sagara]

Yes, by using the Search Comments[^] page. The link is located just to the left of the "Set Options" button.

Jon Sagara
A bottle a night isn't alcoholism - it's persistence! -- A coworker, jokingly

[Lost User]

Why not just change the date on your PC to just before the expiry and let it run ? Elaine (tautological fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D

[paulb]

ummm, change your system date?

[LucidCoder]

Because you want to test if you have cracked Microsoft's piracy protection?

[BhaskarBora]

I think bcos you want to buy the full fledged version ASAP and your 'DAD' will give you money for that only when the eval version expires. hehe :-D ___________________________ "Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly"

[David Wulff]

Ian Darling wrote: VS.NEWT :~

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David Wulff

"It is a helpless feeling to be unable to make something so terribly wrong... right."

[totig]

Yes, that is correct. However, it also has something to do with a freebe.