Thursday, December 8, 2011

How do programmers limit the number of times a software program can be installed?

I have a new software program I would like to market, however for the price, I would like to limit installation of this program to three (3) times. I am not sure how to accomplish this since it may not be possible to overwrite a count monitoring file on a CD or on a downloaded file with the software if it is installed on several different computers.|||If this is a Windows program - use the Registry. Put there your counter.|||Its based on an online key, which checks it with a server database.





key is provided to said individual --%26gt; after installing and inputting key --%26gt; checks with the server --%26gt; server checks how many times the key has been used --%26gt; If key is accepted an encryption key is directly downloaded from the server to the installation unencryptiong some particular file which prevents teh program from running. When you uninstall it, the provision should go backwards, it should inform the server the program has been uninstalled and to free the key one more time.

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