Evaluation software: 120 day limit??

em · June 9th, 2002, 12:23 AM

Hi
Just wondered what anyone knows about the Win 2000 pro "Evaluation software" version. It says there is a 120 day limit on use.
What happens when the 120 days is up? Is it as simple as reinstalling or can the product only be installed once.
What about installig it on a diff system.
Are all the programs functions available.
Thanks.

**silencio** · June 9th, 2002, 12:42 AM

You can reinstall but it has to be a clean reinstall.

**The Rifleman** · June 9th, 2002, 02:23 AM

Who doesn't reinstall about every 3 months anyhow???

**silencio** · June 9th, 2002, 02:29 AM

In your house? Yeah. In a production environment? You shouldn't have to "reboot" once in 3 months. 99.999% downtime is the goal.

**MacGyver** · June 9th, 2002, 06:32 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by iateyourcat:
In your house? Yeah. In a production environment? You shouldn't have to "reboot" once in 3 months. 99.999% downtime is the goal.<hr /></blockquote>You mean uptime. I can get you 100% downtime with an aluminum baseball bat.

**Ya_know** · June 9th, 2002, 08:57 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by The Rifleman:
Who doesn't reinstall about every 3 months anyhow???<hr /></blockquote>People who_know how to maintain a stable OS install, and know how to troubleshoot issues, avoiding the need to reinstall. Honestly, that is not just me saying that...

**techleet** · June 10th, 2002, 10:47 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Ya_know:
People who_know how to maintain a stable OS install, and know how to troubleshoot issues, avoiding the need to reinstall. Honestly, that is not just me saying that...<hr /></blockquote>Seriously. If we were talking about Win98, I would reinstall every 3 months LOL ... but Win2K is a stable beast. My current install has been going strong for about a year now

**silencio** · June 10th, 2002, 03:56 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by MacGyver:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by iateyourcat:
In your house? Yeah. In a production environment? You shouldn't have to "reboot" once in 3 months. 99.999% downtime is the goal.<hr /></blockquote>You mean uptime. I can get you 100% downtime with an aluminum baseball bat.

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> <hr /></blockquote>ROFLMFAO!!! Yeah, uptime!

DOH!!!

**Radical Dreamer** · June 11th, 2002, 01:13 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by The Rifleman:
Who doesn't reinstall about every 3 months anyhow???<hr /></blockquote>Idid untill I found 2k and XP

**Quiet Thunder** · June 11th, 2002, 02:12 PM

Depends. Personally, It takes me two or three working days to completely reinstall everything on my work computer from scratch, but that's because I have so many applications. Plus you have to figure in time for preferences, ect.... I try to reinstall as little as possible, but sometimes the need arises. Now look at this. I'm currently playing around with a 120 day trial of Win 2k Advanced Server. Would you really like to completely reinstall that one every 120 days??? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

Sometimes you can get away with a 3 month trial, but for most, it's definatly not worth it. Especially when you're looking at the Business aspects where time is money. If everyone in my company had 120 day trials, we would have to have a 5 man crew to do nothing but reinstalls everyday.

**DA-VOID** · June 11th, 2002, 02:39 PM

Just go and get a working copy and skip all that crap.Saves you alot of time in the long run.Ya know what I mean.C-YA

DA-VOID

**JungleMan1** · June 11th, 2002, 03:53 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by DA-VOID:
Just go and get a working copy and skip all that crap.Saves you alot of time in the long run.Ya know what I mean.C-YA

DA-VOID<hr /></blockquote>Are you insinuating that he pirate it? Sorry but discussion of piracy isn't allowed here; I almost got banned for it once.

**DA-VOID** · June 11th, 2002, 10:00 PM

NO ... go out and buy a copy. relax ...a program worth using is a program worth buying.

**Ya_know** · June 12th, 2002, 07:00 AM

As far as the "anti-piracy" swing this thread is taking; with the evaluation version, it is possible to simply reset the clock on the PC to reflect a date within the original 120 days. This is not piracy; this is by design. MS could easily write code to prevent this work around, but has not yet done it. Says to me that they are OK with it...

**disarm** · June 12th, 2002, 07:28 AM

My Eval copy would just give me a message at start up that the eval period was up. After that it would continue working per usual. If you set your clock back the message wouldn't pop up.

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