Obviously it's an underhanded tactic to grab peoples' money before they forget about the product. It was a familiar ad, because when I previously uninstalled Wondershare, it had immediately launched my browser and took me to a "special deal" page that claimed I would get a % discount if I ordered right now. It was a pop up that basically said "Get a deal X% off of Wondershare" plus a link to the site. Luckily they were advertising Wondershare products, otherwise I probably wouldn't know what the source was. A few days later, I start to see these SUPER ANNOYING pop up ads on my desktop.
So then I uninstalled again and I thought that was that. I started to have a sour taste in my mouth. I have no problem with a company using the registry to prevent re-using a trial (though most good programs don't do this), but I do have a problem with Wondershare completely gunking up my registry. If you use a program like process monitor, you can see TONS of registry accesses when the program boots up, more than I've seen in any other 3rd party program on Windows. What I realized is that they spew their garbage all over the registry.
They use sophisticated registry tweaks to prevent you from re-using the trial after it's over. I then needed it again later that day so I tried installing it again and of course it wouldn't let me. Then I uninstalled it because the trial was over. It actually worked fairly well and I was considering purchasing it. I installed their streaming audio recorder program and used the trial.
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