Giveaway of the Day where users can download commercial software for free in daily 24-hour giveaways. Each day, a new software is being promoted on the site, and while its usually not the latest or most powerful version of an application, it is often still a great deal.
The site restricts the software activation to the 24-hour period. If you happen to install it once the giveaway has ended, you’ll notice that the setup will block the installation. This is handled by a wrapper application that checks the Giveaway of the Day server if the giveaway is still running.
This can be a issue for users who want to install the program anew after they had operating system troubles or other issues on their computer.
GaotD Setup Keeper is a free open source application for Windows that unwraps the software installer from the Giveaway of the Day wrapper. All you need to do is to use the application during the giveaway period to process it locally. You’ll end up with the program setup file that you can use to install the application whenever you see it fit.
A click on Downloader displays the selection menu where you can select to download the software or the game that is offered on the Giveaway website. Once you have downloaded the file you need to start the setup of the program like you normally would. Switch to the Setup Keeper window and select Setup Keeper > Software / Game to copy the installer to a selected directory on your computer.
You can use this installer then later (that is after the giveaway period) to install the program and have it activated automatically.
The latest version of Setup Keeper requires a debug library that is usually not found on non-development systems. Check out Fix The Program Can’t Start Because MSVCR100D.dll Is Missing From Your Computer on how to add it to your system, or wait until the program is re-compiled by the developer without that dependency.
You can download Setup Keeper from Sourceforge. (via Raymond)
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