John117 Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 is it possible to write an autoit script that saves a loaded application state and saves it as file or such so that at a later time you can open the file and have the application as if it never closed? EX. I get a 30 day trial software. Each time it loads default it checks the date before loading. If I could freeze it in the thirty days at somepoint and load it as a state from there out, it would no longer check the date. -It would behave as a role over that was never shutdown . . . A starting point would be a specific process hibernation with a selectable store location and callup . . . Any takers, or anyone cleaver enough to run with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golbez Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 have you tried anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 You could hard code the expire date and use _DateDiff ( $sType, $sStartDate, $sEndDate ) Compare your date to _Now(), if it's positive then SORRY YOUR TRIAL HAS EXPIRED SIR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John117 Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 Just started thinking about it tonight. So, no havent went anywhere with it. Just posted it to see if I would get any "can't be done's" before I start and hit a wall covered long ago by someone else. Considering that hibernation writes an application state to the HD for a later boot, it should be possible to write any application state to the HD, no? as in I install a new app, and run an autoit script that selects it as a running process, and stores its state. I then load the state later. kinda like saving a game rom state. You don't really load the rom when you recall the state, you just recall the state and if I am correct, there would be zero boot checks. ??? Am I on the right path here? Could be many uses, such as picking up on where you left off on virtually anything . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Your talking about something that would probably require driver level access. You can't just save a process, most programs rely on a series of dll's...and ah crap what are you thinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John117 Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 (edited) So, how does XP hibernate? Why can you not just capture the memory used by a program? Store the Memory used and recall later? -This is not a real question, just a point the rom states can be saved . . . Edited July 18, 2007 by Hatcheda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John117 Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 A bit futher, how can you save a rom state? I dont mean a game save, but and exact state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaponx Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Windows has driver level access and does cannot discriminate certain file states. When you hibernate it just dumps the contents of ram to a file and when you un-hibernate it pushes that file back into memory. This cannot be done in a scripting language especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tAKTelapis Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I feel compelled to note (on the subject of using such a program to circumvent trial software expiries), that if i were writing an application that had a trial, i would be telling it to poll the system for the date every XX number of hours it is alive, as well as when it is opened and closed. It would involve minimal cpu time, and ensure that even if an application such as you are suggesting were availible, the trial could still end when its time period is up. That said, i can think of lots of things it would be great for, such as the ability to save sessions as a user, and then log off for another to login, then restore your session once you are done, without having to have fast user switching enabled. or have it taking up user system resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drlava Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 This is true, most applications not only check at startup but before any major operation, too. So this would be of little/no utility even if it were done. Methinks he needs to look into paying for the program and IDA Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrex Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 @allIf you google it Application hybernateAnd there seems to be only one language do deal with it and that is Java.Have a look.regardsptrex Contributions :Firewall Log Analyzer for XP - Creating COM objects without a need of DLL's - UPnP support in AU3Crystal Reports Viewer - PDFCreator in AutoIT - Duplicate File FinderSQLite3 Database functionality - USB Monitoring - Reading Excel using SQLRun Au3 as a Windows Service - File Monitor - Embedded Flash PlayerDynamic Functions - Control Panel Applets - Digital Signing Code - Excel Grid In AutoIT - Constants for Special Folders in WindowsRead data from Any Windows Edit Control - SOAP and Web Services in AutoIT - Barcode Printing Using PS - AU3 on LightTD WebserverMS LogParser SQL Engine in AutoIT - ImageMagick Image Processing - Converter @ Dec - Hex - Bin -Email Address Encoder - MSI Editor - SNMP - MIB ProtocolFinancial Functions UDF - Set ACL Permissions - Syntax HighLighter for AU3ADOR.RecordSet approach - Real OCR - HTTP Disk - PDF Reader Personal Worldclock - MS Indexing Engine - Printing ControlsGuiListView - Navigation (break the 4000 Limit barrier) - Registration Free COM DLL Distribution - Update - WinRM SMART Analysis - COM Object Browser - Excel PivotTable Object - VLC Media Player - Windows LogOnOff Gui -Extract Data from Outlook to Word & Excel - Analyze Event ID 4226 - DotNet Compiler Wrapper - Powershell_COM - New Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windowsknowitall Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 @allIf you google it Application hybernateAnd there seems to be only one language do deal with it and that is Java.Have a look.regardsptrexDon't BotherYou cant Emulate any state of hibernation.If you're referring to a Video Game ROM imageit does not hibernate. The save state createdfrom a ROM Image is only a bookmark that can be modified with the right tools.Windows hiberantes by writing the RAM contents to the hard drive. When you restart the PC theHardware Abstraction Layer file begins to reverse the hibernation process.I'd assume that you could also re-reverse thehibernation process and modify it from theHAL.dll file.I Warn you. Messing around with the HAL.dll filecould corrupt your Windows Installation.HAL.dll is only available in Windows 2000, XP, and Vista "To the well orgainized mind, Death is but the nextGreat Adventure" - Professor Dumbledore, Hogwarts Head Master(Excerpted from "Harry Potter and the Sorcers Stone" by J.K. Rowling)"Technology has a Life, Like Humans, and should be treated with respect. When You abuse it, You get abused!" - CRS Chairman of the Board of Directors (me)=================================================I will personally hand pick autoit scripters to join the CRS Corp Scripting Team.================================================= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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