The One With Aldacron

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I sure hope someone is patting you on the back for your “integrity”. Ya know besides the people gaining at least 300% profit on their product.

RegCure is not an expensive piece of software. As for my integrity, piracy affects me personally as a software developer. I don’t appreciate people taking for free what I have put time, energy, and money toward developing unless I explicitly release it as freeware.

Most software has a long development cycle – from planning, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. A lot of software will never see a large profit, if any. Retail games are a great example of this, since they have tremendous overhead these days. In fact, most retail games make no profit at all. Software that is sold online has less overhead since distribution costs are cut, but it’s not going to turn someone into Bill Gates without a lot of luck.

I have no idea what sort of profit margin the RegCure developers see, but it doesn’t matter. Even if it is %300, it doesn’t give you the right to steal it. If you don’t like living in a free market society then perhaps you’d be happier living somewhere like North Korea. Moron.

i forgot my key

The problem is that regcure (clickbank) does not accept credit cards or IP´s from out of the US , the reason why people try to get it for free. too bad for business since the world IS more than United States… so who´s the moron?

I have a Korean credit card. They accepted it just fine. But how is failure to accept a credit card justification for stealing?

Look dude. The only ones who are actually doing something illegal/immoral are the ones who put the damn trojans and other malware out there to get on our computers. For these companies that offer this type of protection, like regkey(orwhatever), and expect us to pay for it can kiss my ass. They are the ones putting these horrible programs out there and making money everytime we buy their software to take care of it. Yes you may say that I am a conspiracy theorist, and you may be right. I know what goes on and im fed up with it. I do nothing to deserve this type of treatment. All I want and deserve, just like every other American, is free protection for our home computers. Make Corporate America pay for it. God knows how much they make off of us every hour. And the fact that you say that we are stealing, the ones who are stealing is the companies that offer the “protection” with their godawful profit margins. Anyone who makes that much money off innocent human beings shoud be “thrown to the wolves!”

@Steven: There are plenty of freeware applications out there that can protect your computer: AVG Anti-Virus is an excellent tool that I use and recommend; AdAware, SpyBot, AVG Anti-Spyware, and Microsoft’s own Windows Defender are all good, free anti-spyware tools. RegCure doesn’t even protect your computer. All it does is clean out unused entries from your registry. And there are few free programs to do that, such as the venerable Regclean.

So why, then, with all of the free alternatives do you want to pirate commercial versions? And how do you *deserve* free protection for your computer? Do you deserve free food as well? Free housing? Wouldn’t it be much better if you went to the local department store and took all that you needed for free?

It is not a crime to make money. We all have that opportunity in America. Even you can come up with a product or service idea and sell it. You could also choose to give it away for free. But if you did choose to sell and decided to make a living by it, do you think you would be happy for people to take your product or use your service and not pay you for it?

If you aren’t happy living in a society that encourages entrepreneurialism, you might want to seek out a communist society. There’s no such thing as a corporate machine in North Korea. Perhaps there you can get what you deserve.

By the way, I’m happy to inform you that you have earned the second Moron of the Week Award. Congratulations!

@Aldacron…true, wanting hand outs for something you neither earned or deserve is wrong, and @Steven, making money isn’t wrong is it? Last time I checked, we live in a society where anyone can make as much money as they want…mostly anyway. I am not a software programmer for a living, but I am Java, C++, Pearl, Binary, and A+ certified, and make software for my own enjoyment. If I were to come up with a genuinely good program, I would want to get money for all the hard work I put into right? Steven, did you make the programs you so desperately cleave to and want for free? Did you toil night and day; spending many a night debugging software? No?…then don’t expect “Corporate America” to pay for it or just give it to…you don’t deserve it…pay for the software…

I may be late to this, but I had a “incorrect DLL loaded” problem, went on web for fix, add said RegCure would fix it, PURCHASED RegCure software, ran scan, it said it fixed 243 problems, and I still had the problem! I have new windows vista, MacAfee, etc. all PAID for, and then had to spend 1 1/2 hour with DELL to get problem fixed. What good is this program, and why so many “need to be fixed” problems on a new computer?

I had a “incorrect DLL loaded” problem, went on web for fix, add said RegCure would fix it, PURCHASED RegCure software, ran scan, it said it fixed 243 problems, and I still had the problem!

Whether or not RegCure will fix the “incorrect DLL loaded” error depends wholly upon the cause of the problem, but I doubt it’s something fixable by RegCure in the majority of cases. I know this is a common error with Google Desktop on Vista and, IIRC, Google released a patch to fix it. It’s highly probable that your problem was a software or configuration issue, not an invalid registry entry. Whatever the case, it’s fixed now, eh?

RegCure cleans up invalid registry entries, nothing more. Normally, invalid registry entries do not cause errors, they just waste registry space. Cluttered registries can slow down boot time and decrease overall system performance. The primary purpose of RegCure is to get all of the clutter cleaned out.

What good is this program, and why so many “need to be fixed” problems on a new computer?

If it detected 243 errors in your registry, then it’s doing its job well and you’ve nothing to complain about. You ought to ask Dell why there were so many invalid registry entries on a new computer, not question why RegCure did what it’s supposed to do.

if RegCure is realy a good program, why is it impossible to contact them directly? when i try i get the sales pitch, not a customer service response. i can’t even get a response asking “what does it do and how do i use it”. after purchase i had to “run scan” 2 times to learn how to get it to clean my software, and still don’t know what it does for me. should i just “take it on faith” that it is doing something “good” for me? why are there so many “don’t buy, this is a rip-off” on the internet”? being new to this, i just wanted my “probaby dumb” questions answered. dealing with dell is a pain and takes forever to get results. they can correct my problems, but won’t say why i have a problem. thanks for talking to me

@Gary: Since I found myself with a lot to say in response to your comment, I’ve put it all into a new post. I hope you find it useful.

i carnt afford to buy regcure so can one of you just give me the reg key and stop moaning..
cheers x

What I don’t like is that they don’t tell you the price of their software until you provide your email and name. )Actually…you can leave that information blank, and it will take you to the page with pricing). My point is: Why do they need to “trick” us into buying their software.

Then, as sure as I spend long dark winters in Alaska, at the end of a year, you will get a notice that to continue getting valuable updates, you will have to put out another $10, $20, or more.

PC Pitstop does this as well. I thought they were reputable because they are advertised on Kim Komando. So, NO, this isn’t the only manufacturer that does this.

These are poor business practices and I recommend people avoid them like the plague!

AND NO ONE COMMENTED SINCE JULY 30TH, 2007????

DOES THIS TELL YOU ANYTHING?

Why do they need to “trick” us into buying their software.

Hiding the price behind an email form isn’t tricking you into buying their software. What they’re doing is trying to make it more likely that you’ll sign up for their mailing list so that they can contact you about future offers. There’s nothing devious or tricky in that.

Then, as sure as I spend long dark winters in Alaska, at the end of a year, you will get a notice that to continue getting valuable updates, you will have to put out another $10, $20, or more.

This is not unusual in the software business. In fact, it’s the norm for some market segments. The reality is that, like it or not, most software companies consider you to be purchasing a license to use their software, not outright buying the product itself. So you, in other words, do not own the product. That’s why we have EULAs to click through (End User License Agreeement). Any software you buy, including games, is sold under this philosophy. Personally, I find it utterly ludicrous. But it’s the state of reality right now and we have to live with it for the time being.

Regardless, this post wasn’t about how great or bad RegCure is. It’s about piracy. Disagreeing with a company’s business practices does not justify pirating their product. If you don’t like the license terms, or anything else about the product, it is well within your rights to decline purchasing it. Pirating it is not.

yes, i agree with every word you say,it’s a great software..

Aldacron :

Why do they need to “trick” us into buying their software.

Hiding the price behind an email form isn’t tricking you into buying their software. What they’re doing is trying to make it more likely that you’ll sign up for their mailing list so that they can contact you about future offers. There’s nothing devious or tricky in that.

Then, as sure as I spend long dark winters in Alaska, at the end of a year, you will get a notice that to continue getting valuable updates, you will have to put out another $10, $20, or more.

This is not unusual in the software business. In fact, it’s the norm for some market segments. The reality is…

People in general tend to take things at face value. Marketing strategy takes advantage of this weakness, knowing full good and well that the average buyer does not have a degree in law nor the funds to pursue legal action and will be completely helpless to defend themselves against corporate strategies for marketing. Little a-bites trying to follow in the footsteps of the big corporate strategists do so hoping they can take advantage of the same weakness and get away with it. On that note, best of luck on your endevour to succeed. When one represents a product like Regcure does, and puts links on the main page saying “Buy Regcure” then that is the “face value” people expect. The term “fine print” is commonly known to the average person as a means to conceal hidden costs and restrictions — in short, a strategy for legalizing their deceptions. Any further words you want to contribute contrary to the above only serves to prove that you subscribe to devious marketing strategies same as the big boys. Not that prevoius comments from you do not make that cleary obvious.
When I am told I can “buy” for $x dollars and then told a year later I must pay again then that is pure deception. If the original link said “Lease Regcure” then I would have nothing to feel cheated about, but the fact is, at the time that I supposedly “bought” the “right to use” their product the link said “Buy Recure”.
In closing I would like to add, “RegCure” works wonders. A truly respectable piece of work. Shame the peaple that market it feel common markeing strategy is worth more than common respect. Rest assured I’ll never be fooled by Pareto Logic again.