Shareware came with a time limit. Today I download a shareware to create some banner for my site. Sometime paid software come with lot of more feature than freeware. Thanks to those companies who allow us to use their full featured software for a limited time. We have to buy the software if we want to extend our experience with that software. However, if you observe, you can see that you can install those software after formatting the hard drive. Hard disk partitions formatting is a timely work, and you have to install all necessary software again. The point is how can we avoid that and reuse shareware without doing any formatting.

Before going to solution first we have to know the problem. Why, after formatting we able to install those shareware again? Because, after formatting windows put a new volume serial for that partition which make that shareware think that this is a fresh installation. If we able to find a way to change the volume serial number without formatting hard disk then our problem will be solved. There are may be many paid software around the market,however like always I came here with a free solution.

Hard Disk Serial Number changer is a great program which will help you with this respect. Here is the developer description about this software.

“Hard Disk Serial Number Changer” is one small freeware to change the hard drive serial number, this disk serial number is generated by Windows when you format a disk partition, many software and programs be bind to this serial number, with this small disk tool, you can get a new hard drive volume serial number right now, without reformatting your hard drive. The standard serial number format is XXXX-XXXX, using HEX symbols 0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F. After program change serial number; you need reboot PC to apply it correctly.

The program able to work on NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 file partition and support Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 2000/2003/NT server, Windows server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system.

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