Has anyone else ever had this happen?
When launching Microsoft Streets and Trips, a dialog pops up saying that the copy installed (previously fully activated) was now a expired 60-day trial and needing to be activated?
Fortunately, once I fed it the key and chose Internet activation, it was accepted.
The only thing I could think of was having recently upgraded the Parallels software on my Mac from 5.0 beta to the full release (and which includes an upgrade to the 'Parallels Tools' application on the Windows side; I believe some drivers are part of this program).
When launching Microsoft Streets and Trips, a dialog pops up saying that the copy installed (previously fully activated) was now a expired 60-day trial and needing to be activated?
Fortunately, once I fed it the key and chose Internet activation, it was accepted.
The only thing I could think of was having recently upgraded the Parallels software on my Mac from 5.0 beta to the full release (and which includes an upgrade to the 'Parallels Tools' application on the Windows side; I believe some drivers are part of this program).
Microsoft activation typically ties an install to a specific computer, to prevent people from activating once and then just cloning the hard drive.
When you upgraded Parallels, it may have changed the hardware that was exposed to the operating system. This caused the license manager to believe that you had indeed moved S&T to another computer.
People do make changes to PC components (installing more memory, a new video card, a new hard drive, etc.). So there's a certain tolerance built into Microsoft activation, where you can upgrade some percentage of your computer without triggering reactivation. Apparently the Parallels release version exceeded that tolerance.
Running the beta probably exacerbated the situation. Typically, software companies will try to avoid causing problems when you upgrade their software from one release version to another. But with betas, anything goes.
When you upgraded Parallels, it may have changed the hardware that was exposed to the operating system. This caused the license manager to believe that you had indeed moved S&T to another computer.
People do make changes to PC components (installing more memory, a new video card, a new hard drive, etc.). So there's a certain tolerance built into Microsoft activation, where you can upgrade some percentage of your computer without triggering reactivation. Apparently the Parallels release version exceeded that tolerance.
Running the beta probably exacerbated the situation. Typically, software companies will try to avoid causing problems when you upgrade their software from one release version to another. But with betas, anything goes.
I also am experiencing the occasional pop up "Trial version has expired" on the 2009 Edition of Streets. It would be my guess that the upgrade of your other program has nothing to do with this issue. I will tell you that I have attempted to solve this issue through the help line three (3) seperate times and have just resorted to reentering the key that came with the program. Most of the time just shutting down the program and restarting it will get you by the registration/validation screen.
taoyue: That could be the case - but I would have expected the Windows activation dialog to appear. It would then seem to me that S&T and Windows itself have different reactivation thresholds...
ktrack: The Parallels software I speak of allows me to run Windows on my Mac, and some major updates in the past have included new drivers which have forced a complete reactivation of Windows (and a resultant call to get a new activation ID).
ktrack: The Parallels software I speak of allows me to run Windows on my Mac, and some major updates in the past have included new drivers which have forced a complete reactivation of Windows (and a resultant call to get a new activation ID).