coachreed Posted February 22, 2003 Report Posted February 22, 2003 I have recently lost my whole hard drive to a virus and have reloaded PTE. I had saved my PTE.KEY to my other hard drive and so I have attempted to reload it. Unfortunately eventhough it tells me the key was succesfully loaded, I restart PTE and it still gives me the "nag-screen". If I "Continue" past it and try loading pictures into the list, it gives me the information window saying I can only load 10 pictures into an unregistered version of PTE. Is my PTE.KEY bad or what? Do I need to load it into the original version I bought before I can upgrade? Or, can I just load it to V4.00 Beta #4? I had tried loading it with my original V3.65 and it wouldn't accept it. Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated as I have a lot of pics I would like to compile and share with distant family members. Thanks in advance.Coach... aka Randy! Quote
coachreed Posted February 22, 2003 Author Report Posted February 22, 2003 I just thought of something else. I think I recalled from one time before that I went to the start menu, then to run and then browsed out to the PTE.KEY and ran it. I just tried that and got the following alert window...----------------------------------------Registry EditorCannot import D:\Misc\PTE.KEY: The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.----------------------------------------Anyway, thought I'd put that out there in hopes that it might help the matter a little. Thanks in advance.Coach Quote
Guest guru Posted February 22, 2003 Report Posted February 22, 2003 It's very odd, Coach! First of all, verify your pte.key is exacly 231 bytes. Have you tried to start your PTE (4.00 beta is ok), then go to "Help", "Registration" and follow instructions? Quote
coachreed Posted February 22, 2003 Author Report Posted February 22, 2003 It's very odd, Coach! First of all, verify your pte.key is exacly 231 bytes. Have you tried to start your PTE (4.00 beta is ok), then go to "Help", "Registration" and follow instructions? Thanks for the reply. I just checked the properties of my PTE.KEY and found it to be 173Bytes... not the 231 you specified. Does this mean my PTE.KEY is corrupt or what? Are ALL PTE.KEY's the same size, or will it vary? I last recieved my key about a year ago and saved it to my second hard drive so I would have it for if/when I lost my hard drive again... as I did. Anyway, anymore info that might help?Thanks again.Randy! Quote
Guest guru Posted February 22, 2003 Report Posted February 22, 2003 As far as I know, ALL pte keys are 231 bytes (I verified several of them, older and newer). In my opinion your key is corrupted for some reason I cannot guess. Quote
coachreed Posted February 22, 2003 Author Report Posted February 22, 2003 Well, thanks again for the reply. Not exactly the reply I hoped for, but a reply nonetheless. I guess I have to wait until someone can reply to my email I sent to WnSoft... hopefully they can verify my purchase from a couple years ago and send me a new, uncorrupted PTE.KEY. I had emailed them before I found this forum... I attached a copy of my current PTE.KEY, so hopefully they can use that to somehow verify that it is legitimate.Thanks again.Coach... I mean Randy (I often forget who I really am) Quote
support Posted February 24, 2003 Report Posted February 24, 2003 Dear Coachreed,The point is that you have an old key.Please, write me to orders@regnow.com and I'll send you a new one - pte.txt. Quote
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