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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 order ...

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\default ...

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 ...