On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > *Shudder* > > Back when we were installing a lab of Windows 3.11, by hand, by 3.5 floppy... > I swear MS had some kind of copy protection where you could only install MS > Dos 6.22 3 times before the disk died.
Centuries ago (literally .. this would be 1986 or so ...) Lotus used to do something similar. Their "copy protection" was a hidden file with the count of how many times you installed the product. Once the count got above 4, the installer would refuse to work. So (I remember hearing at the time ... :-)) you made the file unhidden; edited it (it was a simple ASCII text file); reset the count back to 0; re-hide the file; continue with the install ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
