Uninstalling demo/trial of Visual Studio 2008 Team System

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Published on 2009-03-05T17:46:52Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 22:34 UTC
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I wish to uninstall the trail copy of VS 2008 Team System, as the trial is coming to its end. I had VS 2008 Professional Edition installed on the machine to start with and it still shows up in Add/Remove Problems.

I am hoping that when I uninstall VS 2008 Team System I will be left with a working VS 2008 Professional Edition.

When I try to uninstall VS 2008 Team System, I very quickly get an error dialog that says:

A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.

Help!

Progress or lack there of so fare

I have done dir %temp%*.log in a command prompt and can see any log files that are recent

I am going to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer#Diagnostic_logging to see if I can get any logging

Aaron Stebner's WebLog has a post on where VS put's is log files, he also has a post on were some other products put there log files gives some info about where VS setup puts it's logs etc

Aaron Ruckman provided me with the solution after I sent him the log files.

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