When Beyond Compare is uninstalled, the product serial license key remains on the system (presumably in the registry). The uninstall should remove this.
On re-installation, this is recalled and the program is fully registered again.
Reason for the un-install is that I am upgrading to a new PC at work and am uninstalling any licensed apps of my own before moving to the new PC. I would have no control over what happens to the old PC, e.g. whether or not hard drive is wiped.
On my new PC, I expect to run my licensed Beyond Compare as a standalone from an external drive, without requiring installation, as I know that this configuration is supported.
On the old PC I would guess that, since the program is uninstalled, anyone using the PC would not be aware of it being on there, without looking into the registry. But I don't like the idea of my license key details being left on there by default.
Please advise of how to remove the license key, a script or something would be useful. Or otherwise I would have to go into the registry and delete the key-pairs at some part of the tree myself, which I'd rather not do.
On re-installation, this is recalled and the program is fully registered again.
Reason for the un-install is that I am upgrading to a new PC at work and am uninstalling any licensed apps of my own before moving to the new PC. I would have no control over what happens to the old PC, e.g. whether or not hard drive is wiped.
On my new PC, I expect to run my licensed Beyond Compare as a standalone from an external drive, without requiring installation, as I know that this configuration is supported.
On the old PC I would guess that, since the program is uninstalled, anyone using the PC would not be aware of it being on there, without looking into the registry. But I don't like the idea of my license key details being left on there by default.
Please advise of how to remove the license key, a script or something would be useful. Or otherwise I would have to go into the registry and delete the key-pairs at some part of the tree myself, which I'd rather not do.
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