I haven't ever experiencing something timebomb yet, and was wondering what are some of the things you can try out to remedy it if and when a timebomb does happen.

For example, does uninstalling and reinstalling the timebombed plug-in just reset everything?

 

You're asking for generalisations, but basically, every developer that implements protection does it differently, so no one method is going to always work for everything. In short: It depends. Maybe the developer has written stuff in a hidden randomly named file placed somewhere on your file system - you wouldn't know to go looking for it, and thus are unlikely to remove it.

 

Use Revo Uninstaller when installing something. Revo logs exactly what is installed, where it is installed and so on. So if you uninstall again with Revo your system is after that exactly like before. You then could install the software anew. But, let's be honest, no plugin is worth that hassle. There are lots of replacements available without timebombs.

 

Sure there are. The individual timebombed release may not be worthwhile to try again. But that is just a single method, or a missed check, or other reason which causes the plugin to de-authorize. A new method will not always help, if the prior method installation is not fully cleaned up first.
Example, U-He All bundle. Microtonic. etc. Even a purchase of a legit license may not even help, while the remnants of the failed installation are still on the hard disk.

 

on Mac the last "all bundle" were all beta versions and they had specific expiration dates. Later ones are all separate installers and regged. Cleaning up on Mac for a single app is generally easier and doesn't need something as nice as Revo Uninstaller. Microtonic has lots of time-bombed releases, but if you come up with "magic version release" you still would want to clean up first or you might have problems you wouldn't if you had cleaned up correctly.

There is almost nothing for a common Mac user to deal with, that is anywhere near as tedious as the Windows Registry and regedit stuff. If they do, it is in Terminal. They may not do the task at hand correctly, but usually won't break anything new. People frequently go into registry edit and make stuff worse than when they started. We have applications similar to Revo, but none are as stand-out from the others. Pacifist, Suspicious Package, etc. are great, but they are not magic like Revo.

 

wasn't there that little program that changed the time of your system/masked the real time for the program? it used to work many years ago on some demos/less unknown plugins