You must use calendar and clock to set date and time you want select.
Use the 'Current date/time' button to load respectively calendar and clock with current system date and time.
Use the 'File creation date/time' button to load respectively calendar and clock with date and time where the program was installed.
You can choose if Cracklock must affect:
- 'time': only the time will be affected. The date will be the actual system computer date at the running time.
- 'date and time': Cracklock will affect date and time.
- 'date': only the date will be affected. The time will be the actual system computer time at the running time.
Other options
Most programs don't need further parameters. However, you may need to tweak some parameters in some cases:
'Affects system date and time'
When selected, this option make Cracklock less clever : each time you run the controlled program, the system computer time and date will be loaded with values you have specified. When the program ends, date and time will be restored to the actual date and time, taking account of elapsed time during usage of the program.
The drawback of this method is that all programs running simultaneously are affected together, Cracklock in its native method being precisely designed to affect specific date and time to each program running at one given moment and to avoid this inconvenience.
This option reproduces what you can do yourself manually without Cracklock, with the 'date' or 'time' commands under MS/DOS or with the configuration panel under Windows. In my mind, it has no real benefit.
The drawback of this method is that all programs running simultaneously are affected together, Cracklock in its native method being precisely designed to affect specific date and time to each program running at one given moment and to avoid this inconvenience.
This option reproduces what you can do yourself manually without Cracklock, with the 'date' or 'time' commands under MS/DOS or with the configuration panel under Windows. In my mind, it has no real benefit.
Date and time remain constant'
This 'freeze' option allows to set a date/time which never changes, as if the time was frozen. Useful for programs that work only during a few hours or minutes.
For example, if you set 10:00:00 09/22/1981 for this program, during all the run it will 'think' the time is 10:00:00 09/22/1981. Ten minutes later, the time will be always 10:00:00 09/22/1981 for it.
At the opposite, if the option is not selected, at the beginning the program will 'think' time is 10:00:00 09/22/1981, and ten minutes later it will 'think' time is 10:10:00 09/22/1981.
For example, if you set 10:00:00 09/22/1981 for this program, during all the run it will 'think' the time is 10:00:00 09/22/1981. Ten minutes later, the time will be always 10:00:00 09/22/1981 for it.
At the opposite, if the option is not selected, at the beginning the program will 'think' time is 10:00:00 09/22/1981, and ten minutes later it will 'think' time is 10:10:00 09/22/1981.
Advanced options
In the 'Dependencies' tab of the configuration window, you have the ability to choose what file to be affected by Cracklock.
Dependencies window