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It would be very nice to get a full overview of the first time running process, because it is very hard to integrate installation and upgrading of TextPad in a large network with many computers...

I'm currently having problems with installing TextPad5 in a mixed environment of computers with ...

Hmm, I just got a report from a user not seing a valid license for her textpad...

This user has had textpad 4.X previously, so it seems an upgrade from 4.X to 5 doesn't work either...

Sigh...

I note that the textpad 4 license key is situated in the HKLM/Software/Helios/Textpad 4/ key, and in ...

I wrote a small vbscript that deletes the value in question from every user on a box:

const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003

strComputer = "."
sKeyPath = "\Software\Helios\TextPad 5"
sValueName = "Initialized"

Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root ...

I finally cracked this one. I had the exact same problem as you; I needed to install textpad on a number of computers, and I wanted to do it silently, so that users didn't have to do a thing to get the new version, registered etc.

When users run textpad for the first time, a key is created in the ...