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My copy of TextPad 4.7.3 has suddenly decided that, after nearly a year of working without a hitch on my new work computer, it's an evaluation version.

Of course I have the registration saved, so I copied and pasted this in. It accepted it, thanked me for "registering" it. But now every time I restart the program, it thanks me for evaluating it and asks me to continue evaluation or buy the program.

I realize I'm using an older version (I just like 4.7 better) and that I'm using it on a 64-bit Windows 7 system, an OS that didn't exist when it was written. But it's worked perfectly for almost a year on this system, and other than the annoying popups telling me to "buy" the program, it still works just fine.

So why did it suddenly decide it's an evaluation copy, and what can I do to fix it? Putting in the actual registration information only fixes it until the next time I launch the program.

Even when logged in as Administrator on Windows 7, programs that you run don't automatically get administrative rights. To do that, right click the program in Explorer and choose the Run as Administrator command. If you do that with TextPad.exe, it should allow the license information to be written to the registry.

I hope this helps.

Thank you. That worked -- the second time I tried it.

The first time I selected "Run as Administrator" out of the shortcut on the Start menu and that didn't working.

The second time I went to the actual program in the "Program Files" folder and did "Run as Administrator", and it did the trick. So you do need to go directly to the program, not to a shortcut.