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| Thread ID: 99413 | 2009-05-01 04:48:00 | VM & Date Change Question | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 769877 | 2009-05-01 04:48:00 | Could a person - who shall remain nameless - change the date on their computer using a VM to get back to a date to run an outdated and obsolete program? Would the outdated program ask for a BIOS-date instead of the OPSYS date? Inquiring minds want to know . :illogical |
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| 769878 | 2009-05-01 05:23:00 | Just a sidebar here: The reason for needing to do this is because I have a buddy (why is it always a buddy?) who has a diagnostic program he bought, misplaced and just found . It expires on a monthly basis and he will have to delete a big chunk in his research data if he cannot retrieve this older data . There are no disqualifiers, but the program has an outdate that expires on the last Tuesday of each month . As far as I can tell, it's all above-board and legal, he's just late - that's all . |
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| 769879 | 2009-05-01 05:34:00 | No idea. It would probably vary from program to program. Try it and see? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 769880 | 2009-05-01 05:36:00 | I just got off an IM to my buddy (who really exists) in Oklahoma and he's gonna try it with some instructions that got to me from the ethernet. Thanks. |
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| 769881 | 2009-05-01 05:55:00 | OS date = BIOS date. Try changing the time in Windows and have a look in the BIOS. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 769882 | 2009-05-01 06:24:00 | Make sure he makes backups of everything in case the program goes berserk | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 769883 | 2009-05-01 12:13:00 | Most VM programs (MS VirtualPC I know does it) sets the system time to the same as the host each time the guest OS is booted/resumes. | jwil1 (65) | ||
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