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UN-Registering Noteworthy Composer

I may be replacing my computer soon, and intend to migrate NWC to the new machine. I will uninstall the program from the old machine; does this remove the secretly-held licence information, or is there some other way to do this?

If I just uninstall NWC, could the new owner of the machine acquire and install a trial version which would then recognise to the still-existing undeleted licence information?

Re: UN-Registering Noteworthy Composer

Reply #1 –
Unless you are using a very old version, you can simply uninstall.

Re: UN-Registering Noteworthy Composer

Reply #2 –
I recommend if the computer is going to have a new owner then to do a full  “system restore” to your computer, this way any other information on the computer will not be able to be seen or used by the new owner.

Re: UN-Registering Noteworthy Composer

Reply #3 –
Good point. Any time you are planning to give your old computer to someone else, it is a good idea to reformat your system's hard drives. You might be surprised how much info is collected and maintained by your PC.

Re: UN-Registering Noteworthy Composer

Reply #4 –
To prevent anyone from restoring your deleted files (which won't take many minutes if you have the right tools), you should overwrite the "empty" areas of your disk.

Files don't disappear from your disk when you delete them, but instead they are only marked as deleted. Then, whenever disk space is needed, those deleted areas of the disk will be overwritten.

Here is a simple but quite working OW.BAT batch. All it does is make one huge file that will overwrite all of your empty areas.

@echo off
if x%1==x goto syntax
echo Overwriting empty areas of your disk.
echo This may take quite some time, please wait...
%1:
cd\
goto continue
:syntax
echo Error!
echo To run this batch, use the following syntax:
echo.
echo  OW <drive>
echo.
echo  <drive>  The letter of the drive you want to overwrite.
echo.
echo  Example:
echo  OW C will overwrite all empty areas of drive C.
goto end
:continue
echo x >a
echo x >b
copy a+b c /b /y >nul
:redo
del b
ren c b
copy a+b c /b /y >nul
if exist c goto redo
del a
del b
del c
echo Done!
:end