Bypass Forced Authorization in Ultraedit Studio

Posted by Matt Johnson | 2007-10-08 19:32:24

I installed UEStudio a long time ago (the bugs in DW CS3 were driving me nuts). I tried it out for a few hours and went back to DW (I didn't have time to learn a new editor).

I have put up with the lag, bloatiness and bugs in Dreamweaver CS3 (I wish I had never upgraded) for long enough and they have yet to be fixed. So I wanted to play around with UEStudio a bit more but my trial period ended a long time ago. Everytime I open of UEStudio it came up with this little Authorization window making me "Buy Now!". But I found a way around it:

Create a new file on your desktop, right click on it, and open with UEStudio.
The authorization window will popup, click the Cancel button and UEStudio will close down
Delete the file you created on your desktop, and open UEStudio from the start menu
When UEStudio starts up again, prompting you for a username and code. But it will print an error message, something like the file previously opened is not available, or something like that.
Move your mouse over to the error message and click ok (or whatever it is)
You should now be able to use UEStudio temporaily, just move the Authorization box to the bottom of your monitor

Not really a long term solution (and it's not meant to be) but it's enough to let me try out UEStudio a bit longer.