I have downloaded the trial version of Alcohol 120% two days ago.

After installing, I simply can't run the software because it states the evaluation period has expired.

It's the first time I installed Alcohol on my computer, so my question is : does Alcohol evaluation stop at a given date? (like Nero does)

Actually, it's not clearly stated on Alcohol's website.

If it is so, can we expect a newer version that will be useable after downloading?

NB : I've been to Alcohol's website and there's a thread about correctly setting the computer clock. As a note, I've not tampered with the clock.

Thanks for your help

How many CD's did you backup with this trail version?

I can't remember off hand but one of the trail versions of CD burning software I've used had a limit as to how many CD's you could burn.

Hi grenet_ghost,

if you never ever installed Alcohol on your system before there shouldn't be a problem like yours. So as far as I know you got 2 or 3 weeks for testing this wonderful program I'm not quite sure about the period and it's full working in your test period there are no limits or any restrictions if I'm wrong please correct me
This is not a real help for you I know but just ask at their support forum they will help you http://forum.alcohol-soft.com/.
The only legal but stressful way I can think about is formating your system

Thanks for your answers.

Oddly enough, I had just formatted my system to cleanly install my newly acquired NEC2500a (and removed SCSI devices).

So the registry was perfectly clean and the winnt/system directory too.

ZIB : with blindwrite 4, there was a notice sayin you had already burnt "n" CD-R and that asked you to register (without hampering you to burn other CD in the allocated evaluation period, though)

I heard a new version of Alcohol is around the corner... I'd prefer to wait a lill while before formatting and installing the new version.

I'm also waiting for the new version and hope it'll be there the next days as rumours are afloat

There is no exact date for the new Alcohol release, but you can expect it very soon. Some final tests are being done by both Dev team/beta testers and it shouldn't take long. But as I said, there's no exact release date, it can be tomorrow or the next week, who knows...