As I was searching to see if there are any other methods available to extract the Giveaway of the day installer from the wrapper other than Giveaway Forever, I found an open source program called GAOTD Setup Keeper hosted at SoureForce. As the name suggests, it helps you keep the Giveaway of the day setup file so that you can reinstall at a later time, such as when you need to format your hard drive and reinstall the software. If you didn’t know, the setup.exe file that you can download from the giveaway of the day’s website perform a check with their server to verify if the software is still within the giveaway period. If the giveaway period has expired, then you won’t be able to proceed with the installation, making the setup.exe file useless.
So what you actually need to save is the extracted setup installer file rather than the setup.exe file that you’ve downloaded from GAOTD website. This can be done manually by accessing the temporary folder and set to view hidden files but GAOTD Setup Keeper saves you all that trouble by automating it.
Currently the latest version 3 of GAOTD Setup Keeper is only available in French but it shouldn’t be too hard to use. If you’re unable to run GAOTD Setup Keeper because of missing MSVCR100D.dll file, then you will need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime libraries which is provided together with the program.
Every options is available at the menu bar. There are two options at Telecharger menu. The first one “Le logiciel du jour” is to automatically download the current giveaway of the day software and the second “Le jeu du jour” is to download the current game giveaway of the day. Clicking on either option will prompt you to launch an application (downSoft.exe or downGame.exe) and then displays a window asking you where you would like to save the downloaded file.
The “Conserver l’install” option is allows you to save the setup installer. First you need to run the setup.exe file that is downloaded from giveawayoftheday.com, and then select the “Logiciel” option from “Conserver l’install” menu. You will then be asked to select the location to save the setup installer. “Ju” does the same thing as “Logiciel” except it is for game. The “Mode hors ligne” allows you to manually specify the filename that you want to save the setup installer. The Giveaway option at menubar brings you to a website that contains the archives of Giveaway of the Day and also the official giveaway of the day website.
Basically GAOTD Setup Keeper does the same thing as Giveaway Forever, except with slightly more features which is automated downloading of the latest giveaway software and game.
GAOTD Setup Keeper Keeps Giveawayoftheday Installer File is a post from: Raymond.CC Blog