jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Years ago, I had two very good programs - AnyDVD and CloneCD. These programs could copy commercial discs. I'm not in the business or pirating and selling discs, but sometimes I want to play a CD in the car, but I don't want to take a chance of losing or damaging an original, so I'd make a copy.

The versions I had stopped working as Windows updated, but I got CloneCD today, and it worked fine. I can use it for twenty-one days before paying, and that's good because they are having trouble with their payment system. The price is around E33 (Euros). I didn't get a $$ translation for that. AnyDVD costs about the same.

When most programs came on DVDs, I usually copied the expensive ones, just to play it safe.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

33 Euros = 36 US Dollars (at time of posting this).

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

This might not be totally honest, but if you remove the nickel sized battery from your motherboard, the computer will only rack up time when it’s running. Unless you leave you computer running continuously, you can stretch out that 21 days into a very long time. And if you are about to run out of time, simply reset the time and date. I did this not to cheat any one but to make sure the outdated photo program I sometimes use would continue to be available on the photos only computer my son built up for me. I have no internet connection at home (other than dial up) and no matter how many gigs of photos I have on it, it still runs just as fast as when he first built it. Internet use seems to clog things up no matter how careful you are or how often you clean things up.

Of the 30 day free trial on the photo program, after 9-10 months of time since loading it I think it’s down to about 20 days left. And then all I have to do is reset the clock for years more use.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Interesting!

srat50 Loc: Ware, Massachusetts

if you saved your licience number it would be free plus if you updated it it would still work. mine have been working for over ten years on multible computers.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I tried installing it, but it said there was a problem with...

Let me try again.

Nope! I installed a version from 2016, and when it opened, it said I could buy it or try it. It didn't give me a chance to end my number

srat50 Loc: Ware, Massachusetts

try it then click on your licience file if you still have it if that doesn't work your version was before redfox bought the company for anydvd.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

In addition, some old programs won’t run on newer computers regardless of whether you have the license number or not. Some old programs have new drivers you can download to make the old program work but others don’t. That’s why I still have an old Windows XP in the other room. I have a Dimage digitizer and there are no new drivers to make it work on newer systems. I found that out when I got a windows 7, the Dimage was unusable unless I kept the old computer. On those old computers the internal battery is probably long dead anyway so it won’t count the days that it’s installed.

BebuLamar

Which one was that? Is it one of those Dimage scanner? If so I can get it to work with Windows 10 (perhaps even Windows 11 but I didn't try yet)

srat50 Loc: Ware, Massachusetts

Anydvd and clone dvd 2 run fine on windows 11

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

When they get their payment system working, I'll buy both.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

When windows 7 came out drivers weren’t available for the Dimage Dual Scan IV digitizer for slides and negatives. It’s possible some came out later, I don’t know. Not only does I digitize but there is a program that goes with it that allows you to correct colors, crop, etc. I also still have an old hp flatbed scanner that I use occasionally. I use it enough that I want to keep and use it but not enough to go buy a new one.

I don’t know how the windows xp and 7 programs differ, but we had the same problem at work. The big dogs thought that we needed the new windows 7 computers and changed them all out. The problem was our old DOS based engineering programs wouldn’t run on 7. There we were with work to do but no design programs to do it with. A classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.