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I am enclosing two recent emails posted to the group regarding
this matter.
Hope it helps.
Demir Dinc
Hold Down the Shift Key while+after inserting the Cd into the
Cd playeror disable the Insert function...................see older mail
belowRegards,Ton Maas<A
href="mailto:ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDismiss the
".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.Homepage <A
href="http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas";>http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaasAdditionaly
to Equis Support's fast & honoust reply on this issue, there is a
hic-upin their MetaStock Cd's Autorun.ini feature, and in which
Support-reply youwere advised to do perform a standard Win9x routine
(holding down Shift keyto disable any AutoRun.exe calls), have printed
further below another -for my situation-better&in future use quicker
solution.Equis' advice was:-Hold Down the SHIFT key while
Insert-ing(on tray) the MSK-program Cdrom into your CdRom-player(press
the tiny button on the front panel)-Hold SHIFT key Down for as long as it
takes the Cd to be read for installation file calls and when finaly
being installed, eg until all the "player's installation noise" has
disappeared (eg when in Windows Explorer or My Computer you will see
your Cd-drive change Icons+Name).-Release SHIFT keyA second and
better option is to leave (undo) the Auto Insert Message option
unavailable:-go into ControlPanel|System|CDROM|"YourCdrom player"-at the
bottom left, click for your Cdrom player's Properties-click the Settings
TAB-go to Options section-uncheck the Auto Insert Message optionNext
time any program that has the Autorun.exe feature being addressed to,
willfind its attempts (made by their Autorun.ini file) die in harmony (eg it
will not be started/run).It does mean, however, that in future you will have
to manualy start up any setup programsthat their Autorun.ini refer to, if
you want such a Cd's program being installed.You can view the Autorun.ini by
copying file to a temp folder, renaming its extensionto TXT and double
clicking file for opening by NotePad. In file you will see what Setup.exeor
Install.exe is the correct one to run a setup. (Eg Office has 3 of such setup
files in theOffice Cd's main folder, but only one will get addressed in
Office's
AutoRun.ini).////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// There
is a license verification needed 90 days after installing MetaStock7.0.
Generally installing the CD is enough. Apparently the Auto-run
featurestarted instead. The next time it asks you for the CD, hold down the
SHIFTkey on your keyboard as you insert the CD and continue to hold it down
for afew seconds and this will disable the Auto-run feature momentarily.
Thiswill allow the verification feature to read the CD without
Auto-runstarting, when complete MetaStock will start up. This only needs to
be doneonce.LynnEquis Support<A
href="http://www.equis.com/";>http://www.equis.com/<A
href="http://www.equis.com/customer/support/";>http://www.equis.com/customer/support/Please
include previous email answers and questions in your response. Equis and
MetaStock and MetaStock Professional are registered trademarksof Equis
International. Achelis Binary Wave, The DownLoader, ExpertAdvisor,
OptionScope, Quotecenter, and Smart Charts are trademarks ofEquis
International.> At 07:20 25-1-2000 -0600, you wrote:> >Has
anyone ever received the request from MetaStock (the program) to>
>"insert the CD in the floppy drive for re-verification or
yourprogram> >will be terminated in 7 days" This message
popped this morning (orlast> >night) and when I inserted the CD
this morning, MetaStock tried to> >install a new copy over
itself.> >> >Has anyone else dealt with this before?
What's the magic bullet?> >> >If Equis is reading couldn't
this "feature" be designed a littlebetter> >so that you simply
retype a CD Key? Also couldn't the install besmart> >enough
to recognize that MS is already installed - then go on to do>
>whatever it needs to do instead of reinstall?> >> >Frank
McClendon///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////-----
Original Message ----- From: "Norman Wiss Jr." <<A
href="mailto:cutup2@xxxxxxxx";>cutup2@xxxxxxxx>To: <<A
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent:
dinsdag 13 juni 2000 22:30Subject: Re: CD verification> The
CD is inserted only when the program requests it for verification. I>
have no reason to do otherwise. What's wrong with the program setup?>
> Norm Wiss> <A
href="mailto:cutup2@xxxxxxxx";>cutup2@xxxxxxxx> > >
> ----- Original Message -----> From: Henry Amand <<A
href="mailto:back@xxxxxxxxxxx";>back@xxxxxxxxxxx>> To: <<A
href="mailto:metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:01 PM> Subject: Re: CD
verification> > > > > My program keeps calling for
the CD for verification each time> > > I start MetaStock. How can I
get the program to recognize the> > > CD and to stop asking this
question?> >> > Put the original CD in the CD player after
the question is asked :-))> >
For those troubled by Metastock always wanting to check
the CD to continue operation, there is an interesting registry entry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Equis\Metastock 7.0. Under value name
"LicenseCheckInterval" there is binary value data of "c6 08 86 92 ba cc f5
e0".
-Corey.
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