Can I extend my free trial period?

[Greg]

My 30 days is up, but I'm not done testing. How can I get an extension for a week or so?

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Greg

My 30 days is up, but I'm not done testing. How can I get an
extension for a week or so?

If you order a second copy of the trial, you might be able to get an extra
thirty days. But the activation software may not like that.
If you used a second PC with a second copy of the trial, you would get 30
more days.
If you used the same copy of the trial on another PC, you would get 4 uses
of the software (well, that's what you'd get if the technology is still the
same as with the Office XP trials - I'm not sure whether it's changed since
then)

 

[Budget Print Center]

how long to get along without paying?

--
"Display tolerance & kindness to those with less
knowledge than you because there is ALWAYS
someone with more"

I'd doubt it but you can always call Microsoft and ask. Now I've got to
ask - what are you "testing" that you need 40 days or so?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

My 30 days is up, but I'm not done testing. How can I get an extension

for
a week or so?

 

[Ed Bennett]

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Don

Hmmm.... must set up it's own hours, days.

The next drastic move would be fdisk the hard drive, format, reinstall
everything. In my case, I'd rather just buy the software than go
through that nightmare.

If it's the same technology that I've seen, it won't work. You have to use
Product Activation to activate the trial, otherwise you only get 4 uses of
it before it dies. You can't activate any trial more than once.

You *could* install it in a clean Virtual PC or VMWare virtual machine, save
the machine state with 4 uses left, then use it 4 times, restore the
previous machine state, repeat ad infinitum.