You may know that I’m using the MSI Afterburner software to record game videos on my PC. The software has been in beta for quite some time. One issue I experienced is that the beta versions have fixed expiration dates, which means that they expire at a given point in time. While this is usually a non-issue considering that a new beta version has always been available when this happened, it may be a issue for users who do not have an always on Internet connection. And for some software, it may even make the program unusable if the developers fail to provide a new version in time.
RunAsTime is a lightweight portable software for Windows that can run applications in the date and time that you specify. Unlike other tools that change the system data and time for that, RunAsTime injects the desired date and time into the application directly without altering the system time. The application is made to believe that the system time is set to the selected date and time, when in fact it is not.
All options are displayed in the main application interface on startup.
Here you can select the application that you want to run in a different date and time and the desired date and time. It is optionally possible to add startup parameters to the program start. A click on Run starts the program with the selected date, time and parameters.
You can click on create desktop shortcut to create a desktop shortcut for that configuration. Handy if you need to start the program regularly. The program supports a second mode of operation called Immediate Mode. This mode injects the data and time directly without waiting for the kernel to be fully loaded. This may fix problems with applications who get the real system time and not the time configured in RunAsDate. Some applications on the other hand may crash when Immediate Mode is used.
Like many other Nirsoft applications, RunAsDate can be launched from the command line. The supported parameters are the following ones:
RunAsDate.exe {/immediate} {/movetime} [dd\mm\yyyy] {hh:mm:ss} [Program to run] {Program parameters}
RunAsDate does not work on all Windows programs. It is only compatible with 32-bit applications and won’t affect applications that get the time from a secondary source.
Windows users can download RunAsDate from the official Nirsoft website.
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