Expired demo games

This is a big problem. How can you NOT think of this? They should prompt user what to do with files. My SSD is real small and using it for 10 Gig free weekend title and then forget it there is really frustrating to discover afterwards. I don't think anyone here is minsinterpreting the point of free weekends, but the files for a game should delete if the game is automatically taken off your list.

I'm fine with the files staying on my HD - I've bought games after free weekends and appreciated not having to redownload them, but the game should stay on your list so you can easily know they're there, select, and delete them without having to go searching for them in your program files.

Free Weekends are trials, limited time demos. There should be no obligation to buy the game after this period of time. In current form Steam actually punishes you for not buying, by stealing your disk space. Demo is demo, it's no contract. Thaxall'ssillpyiat View Profile View Posts. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.

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Use at your own risk. It has been upgraded to new version. Future update can be found here. How to extend or reset the trial period of shareware, trial-ware, demo-ware or trial software?

Method 1 Reinstall the program. Method 2 Adjusting the clock date and time of your computer system before starting installation of trial software to future data, or adjusting the clock to past date after expired trial period.

Method 3 Use a application installation monitoring software or uninstaller software such as Norton Cleansweep , Your Uninstaller! Method 4 Backup the registry before installation of software, and restore the registry after trial period passed. Method 5 Reinstall windows, and you can be sure that you can use all trial demo shareware again, as all dummy registry entries and dummy files that store trial information are wiped off.

Method 6 Find a crack, with the help of cracks search engine such as Astalavista. Method 7 Search with various search engines such as Google and Yahoo! Method 8 If you use any of the following software, then Trial-Reset can helps you to extend the trial period of the software.