How do I install licensed product over eval product?

[Guest]

A few month back I downloaded an evaluation copy of XPe. I believe it was
due to 'expire' in 90 days (any day now). Since then, I bought a licensed
copy from MS. I want to put the licensed copy on the machine that has the
evaluation copy. Do I first have to uninstall the evaluation copy? (I would
rather not) When I tried to install the licensed copy, it returned almost
immediately because it found the files already in existence. I just don't
want to come in one day and find my system locked out due to the expiration.

-hanley

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Hanley,

You must uninstall both eval tools and eval database and install it from scratch :-(

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[David D]

Do yourself a favor,
Rebuild your project if you have one working, then save the output text to a
file.
This will give you a list of the components you need when you rebuild
everything from scratch.
Now, if there was a way to save all the changes you make to the components
settings.
I ended up installing TD full onto another computer. I then referenced the
old computer when I had a question about how I had the project set up. It
was well worth the cost of upgrading to a new PC. Save yourself some time
and set up TD full on a fast PC. I ended up keeping the old PC to do work
and use a KVM to swith to the TD PC. I can run the builds and such and do
work on the other PC. It has really been good to make the TD PC dedicated.