# resetting jfw auth keys

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2008 23:25:14

I am looking for a command that I know exists to reset the number of keys that were originally on my floppies for jaws 3.7, 3.5 and 3.31 and 3.0. I know there was a command on the tutorial tapes, but I dont' have those tapes any more. Some of these floppies have 1 or 0 keys left on them, so if some one knows how to run one of these things let me know please.

## Post 2 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 15:10:34

For those of you who might know the answer, here is the reply I got back from FS. They told me that can only be done at FS. Consequently they told me my serial number was not valid. So I just deleted the email.

## Post 3 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 15:15:21

Well, what did you expect? Did you really think they would tell you how to get around something like that? They only give a certain number of authorization keys because they don't want you to install it too many times or whatever their reason is, so I'm not sure why you bothered to email them at all.

## Post 4 by skpoet711 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 19:09:01

"Well, what did you expect? Did you really think they would tell you how to get around something like that? They only give a certain number of authorization
keys because they don't want you to install it too many times or whatever their reason is, so I'm not sure why you bothered to email them at all."
Limiting amounts of times a software can be installed is pure bullshit.
E.g. windows 2000 professional could be installed infinite times, then they implemented limited installations to 1 on windows xp unless its a vl.
If I Spent 100+ dollars on a software, I want to be able to install it on as many computers as I have purchased :P. Who are you to dictate to me what numbers I can or can not install it on? That is another reason why I totally am for modifying so that I can work around the limitations.
Then take jaws for example, if I spend 1100 bucks on a software of that exorbitant price, why the hell am I limited to just 5 computers? $1100 is a brand new laptop :P
by setting high prices and implementing restrictions, you invite others with the know hows to break your limitations. Its simple logic here. Make it afordable so that one does not have the need to expend the time to break the restrictions.
time is money, so if it takes a person 8 hours or so to break a software, that is to me, worth saving $1100. However, if the software is like say... $50, then 8 hours is not worth saving $50 IMO.
which ties in the limitation factor. Spending 8 hours to work around such limitation is worth not having to purchase another identical product, when one can use their existing software on the new machine they just bought or built.
this is in no way condoning one's act of acquiring a piece of software by means of hacking without first purchasing an original copy of that program.

## Post 5 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 19:48:51

I didn't say it was right, I was simply pointing out that if you email the company that restricts the use of the program to however many times you can use it, asking for a workaround, you won't get the answer you want, at least not from them. That's all I was saying and I agree that screen readers are overpriced.

## Post 6 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 20:52:03

Woh woh here. Post 4 I totally agree. As for dez your post did not help me one bit. I never said I was trying to hack around the system. I was told it was possible to reset the auth codes back to 5 or whatever and FS had told Juan how to do it so I figured they'd tell me. So don't call me stupid or a fool for emailing them. But we all know how FS is.

## Post 7 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Thursday, 17-Jul-2008 21:28:15

I can confirm that upon E-mailing freedom scientific they told me something about going into the authorization manager and dealing with the problem in one of the radio buttons, though I am not sure how it exactly went... this was in the golden time in which security through a serial number did not exists. This is really stupid. It is like the new Bush (monkey administration) act passed for immigrant verification upon the use of a computer. The database for the fools that claim to "govern" all the United States is out of date and its information might not even be exact. What is worse, is that this method, just like freedom scientific asking for serial numbers, is that youmust be able to convince a machine that you are who you are through some kind of identification (and you are lucky that you would exists on the database). I regret everything since freaking money is invented... people are pretty much right... money is indeed the root of ALL EVIL.

## Post 8 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Friday, 18-Jul-2008 10:23:02

OK, my bad. I didn't know they would actually help you with something like that. I thought they only gave you a certain number of keys, and after that, you weren't supposed to use the authorization disks anymore.

## Post 9 by Big Pawed Bear (letting his paws be his guide.) on Friday, 18-Jul-2008 11:52:35

i think there is a way of resetting the autorisation keys for quella versions of jaws. you need to put a code into reset authorisation count edit box and then hit execute. though the code needs to come from fs. hth.

## Post 10 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Friday, 18-Jul-2008 11:55:36

But there shoujld be a universal command, because the floppy or auth manager isn't going to know it some custom string. It has to be a universal command that the floppy know

## Post 11 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 19-Jul-2008 10:08:28

well it is a universal code perhaps, like what you're saying, though its pretty stupid that you must convince a machine that you do not belong on the invalid/missing serials list. Additionally, there is a reset usage count or something... its up on the fs bulleting boards.

## Post 12 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Saturday, 19-Jul-2008 14:44:13

On the auth floppy there is a winmove.exe file which contains 2 check boxes
move authorization default is checked
reset authorization default is unchecked
I uncheck the first and check the reset box. I click continue and it goes away but when I check the hjauth floppy for my count it doesn't give me any more and it has not been reset.