RE: OTP - menu fix

[probson@powerup.com.au]

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The uninstaller *should* get rid of everything that it puts on your system
(except shared dlls etc)... but with trial ware, they generally bury keys in
the registry or use other methods to make sure you don't reinstall their
software after it has expired.

Out of interest, anyone know of a way to get around this?  I guess that it's
not entirely legal though :(

just wondering.

Paul

 > ============================================================
> At 11:06 PM 3/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >	Hey, I'm too lazy to actually look up the registry key for the
>
> "Look up"? U can do that? Where?
>
> >right-click-on-the-desktop-icon but I think there's a pretty good chance
> >that once you uninstall CuteFTP the offending menu item will also go
away.
>
> Uninstall is kind of a vague term when it comes to Windoze, IMHO - that
> implies some process smart enuf to untangle all the threads infiltrated
> when it was installed, which the o/s seems too, um, incomplete... to do
for
> u. My only hope for an uninstal is that the "Cute" designers were polite
> and professional enuf to
>
> (a) provide an uninstall that will activate automagically when it expires
> (none is apparent on the toolbar at the moment, for whatever that's
worth),
> and
>
> (b) effective enuf to find this particular bit and snip it out. I view
this
> as faint hope, since it does them no good to leave me with a clean break
> when the alternative is, i send them $. So young to be cynical, i know...
>
> >If this doesn't help, keep posting, this is actually too simple to remain
> >unresolved.
>
> Besides, _I_Want_Control_Of_My_o/s_! I didn't even know u could /add/
> things to that menu. Altho it now appears that McAfee did...
>
> Too simple - yeah, like the old guy goes to the doc with a pain in his
> knee, Doc hits it once with a rubber hammer, pain goes away. Doc gives the
> gent a bill for
> $100. Guy's outraged - "$100 for 2 minits! All u did was hit my knee! I
> demand u itemize that bill!"
>
> So the Doc sits back down and taps at the keyboard, and an itemized bill
> pops out:
>  "Hitting with rubber hammer: $5.00
>         Knowing where to hit $95.00
>                      Total: $100.00
>
> regards - grant
>
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