Problem upgrading Visual Studio 2008 trial to full version

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Published on 2009-07-19T23:58:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 15:04 UTC
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I had installed the trial version of Visual Studio 2008. I decided to uninstall it and install the licensed version I just purchased.

However, no matter what I try, the installation will not change from the trial to using my new license. I have completely removed the Visual Studio, but still it will not upgrade.

What can I do beside reformat my machine? (yeah right, like this is gonna happen)

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