He deleted the evaluation folders. He scrubbed the XML files, purging the unique identifiers that branded his machine as a "trial user." He was ghosting the very system he depended on.

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: The IDE writes encrypted identifiers like PermanentUserId and PermanentDeviceId to determine if a computer has previously used an evaluation.