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Does anyone know where a good place to hide stuff in the registery would be? What I want to do is create a shareware program and give it a 30 day trial period. I want to hide the date it was first started somewhere in the registery so that the user(hacker) can't find it and change it.. Anyone have any suggestions?
thanks
Why don't you encrypt the date and then store it in the registry.
I agree. Encrypt your date key in the registry. However as an add precaution, tell the program that if there is no registry key to not run the program.
Also, don't use GetSetting etc.
use a few api calls and bury it somewhere else.
Why would you use api calls instead of GetSettings, SaveSettings... etc?
savesetting and getsetting are all keep under the vba folder. You should put it someplace else.
Because then you can hide there somewhere deeper, like in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT or HKEY_CURRENT_USER. You know? it's harder to find...
also, I read some time ago it's best to split the date/serial up into pieces and bury them in different places in the registry and DLL's in the c:\windows\system dir :)
Can anyone tell me what those api calls for writting things out to the registery are and how to use them?
thanks for the responses
Kedaman wrote some good stuff for walking thru the Reg.
Check out his web page for it, it's pretty good.