Same thing happened to me. i purchased in 2012. I will not subscribe because I purchased the full program at that time.

If you purchased Object Desktop in 2012 you will have had 12 months from date of purchase to download, install and use any/all programs of interest to you.

They will of course have been which-ever vintage of program from that time...for the Operating System 'current' at that time.

You had 12 months to DL and safely store any/all purchased products....and they will work for you exactly as they did, provided of course you and/or Microsoft did not alter/update the OS, in which case results may vary.

Object Desktop is a service.  It is not an historical repository for past customers to access superseded software for legacy Operating Systems 11 years later.

When a person buys a product it becomes the purchaser's responsibility to safe-keep that product.  If he loses it for whatever reason it cannot be the vendor's responsibility.

The whole actual benefit of an on-going Subscription is the subscriber has continuing access to updates to the software so neither he, nor Microsoft can totally deny on-going compatibility with changes to the OS going forward...

Excellent thought, Carl.

I remember when Object dock came to W8, Stardock priced (as a special celebration) it at $5. It usually cost at least twice that.

Howevever, even then customers were warned to keep their installers as if lost, they would be unretrievable, and Object Desktop was never a stand alone.

From the Wikipedia: 

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Desktop)

"Impulse (preceded by Component Manager and Stardock Central) is the main interface for registering, downloading and updating components. It is roughly equivalent to a package manager.

Users pay an initial fee for access to the software and one year of access to download updates. They may also download new components added during their subscription period. Updates are not guaranteed; components deemed less relevant may be passed over, or removed.

After expiry, users cannot download any software until they renew; however, they do not lose the use of released (non-beta) software that is already downloaded, nor is it necessary to renew immediately. Renewals add a year of access from the date of renewal, not the expiry date.

Historically, the initial subscription fee for the Windows version of Object Desktop has been $49.95, while a year's renewal or an upgrade from a standalone component has been $34.95. Object Desktop 2008 introduced two tiers, with the lower tier at $49.95 and the higher tier at $69.95, but the latter was eliminated in 2010."

Thus, it isn't conceivable that an Object Desktop subscription was purchased at the price quoted in this thread. More likely as you pointed out, they bought Object dock stand alone...but in any case it's a moot point as they lost their istallers and keys.

Would you like a pic of that receipt to prove i did?

We are almost always "absolutely correct"...

I'm glad you've got it sorted...