Extending demo software?

[Fett]

What are the best ways of extending the use of demo software. I have recieved demo software of a psychology tool that allows 100 trials. I only need teh software for approx 2 days use but will be debugging experiments so the 100 trials wont last long.Other than formatting and reinstallign what are the ways I can extend the use? Ive heard of installing programmes in a sandbox type thing. anyone have any idea on this?

[H4ss4n]

Whats the name of the software?

You might be able to get a torrent or nzb for it.

[mc.dodd]

When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations.
For example, if you run the Freecell program to play a game, it starts by reading the previously recorded statistics, displaying and altering them as you play the game, and finally writing them back to disk for future reference.

a sandbox changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk. Data flows in both directions between programs and the sandbox. During read operations, data may flow from the hard disk into the sandbox. But data never flows back from the sandbox into the hard disk.

If you run Freecell inside a sandbox environment, it reads the statistics data from the hard disk into the sandbox, to satisfy the read requested by Freecell. When the game later writes the statistics, Sandboxie intercepts this operation and directs the data to the sandbox.

If you then run Freecell without the aid of a sandbox, the read operation would bypass the sandbox altogether, and the statistics would be retrieved from the hard disk.

The transient nature of the sandbox makes it is easy to get rid of everything in it. If you were to throw away the sandbox, by deleting everything in it, the sandboxed statistics would be gone for good, as if they had never been there in the first place.

*from Sandboxie site

[hxbro]

I'd install xp on a vmware machine, install software, make copy of virtual machine, run software 100 times, delete virtual machine, copy the copy and run again

[beerman]

I'd install xp on a vmware machine, install software, make copy of virtual machine, run software 100 times, delete virtual machine, copy the copy and run again

Or take a snapshot of the machine in VMware workstation and just revert to the snapshot. No need to delete and copy, VMware will do it for you

[Fett]

Whats the name of the software?

You might be able to get a torrent or nzb for it.

I checked that route, no joy on it as you need a dongle to run it, hence I contacted the company direct and got sent a demo version.


mc.dodd, cheers for that info.

I'd install xp on a vmware machine, install software, make copy of virtual machine, run software 100 times, delete virtual machine, copy the copy and run again

Cheers hxbro, Thats what I was lookign for. I will give that method a go.

Some df dollars on the way to ya all.

*EDIT* Posted same time as beerman and would just like to extend thanks and df dollars to him also.

[hxbro]

thanks