PhilSecond QuestionTue Nov 10 20:58:28 1998 Hey... Long time reader, first time poster. Like many of you, I too am a 'newbie' and have limited knowledge in cracking. I have followed this class from the beginning and have understood almost all of it, with few exceptions. I have learned so much in just a few days than I did when I read dozens and dozens of tutorials in the last several months. In response to Sandmans Second Question, this is what I have learned so far: 1) At address cs:00451397A, the program takes you name that you entered and turns the letters into lowecase. It then adds up the hex values of each letter and stores the value in 'EBX'. 'EBX' is then XOR to 89, then XOR again to 33, and finally increased by 1. The new 'EBX' value will give you the proper Registration Key for your name. But the value is still in hex form and need to be converted to decimal. 2) I believe I have also found one of those Conditional Jumps that Sandman talked about. That when disabled/changed it register the program. The conditional jump that I changed was at cs:0045B9C0 2.1)It disables the nag screens from appearing at start up of the program. 2.2)It disables the time limit restcriction. 2.3)When you select the 'Help' menu option, and then choose 'About', the register button is disabled, however it there is a message saying that if you use the program after 30 days, to please register it. Blah, blah, blah... 2.4)On the next screen it also tells you that the program is registerd to you. So in all I believe the program is fully registered. 3) I have tried to find where the programs stores how many days it has left to review Uninstall, but with my limited experience soon became lost in the mass amount of data. 4) I have also tried to disable the Nag screen while leaving the time protection enable, but with no avail. I again become lost.This is all that I have learned and hopefully to learn more.PhilMore info.. like how you found this?? by Coa_chez , Wed Nov 11 12:24 More Info by Phil , Wed Nov 11 16:19 Gut feeling? Early signs of ZEN! by The Sandman , Wed Nov 11 18:51