Hi,
I just purchased Media Center 9, and thought I had a day or 2 left on my trial version, but unfortunately it has expired. When I start it up, the Media Center Registration splash screen pops up and tells me "This feature is not available. Your 30 day trial period has expired." When I click on the Advanced button to get to the Restore button, it pops up the License Restore dialog box, asking where I want to restore from (license file .mjr or from the net). I have tried both ways. Going to the net takes me to the restore page, which then emails me a reg code and an installatioin key, neither of which I can figure out where to put in from the splash screen. I tried creating a license.mjr file with the license string as the file, without success (surprise surprise!). I also tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling the trial version (twice), with 2 reboots in between the uninstall and reinstall, but it always comes up saying the trial period has expired. So I'm thinking that either 1) it modified the trial executable to prevent repeated uninstall/reinstalls, or 2) there is a hidden file somewhere on my system that it created initially and left on after an uninstall, which it then checks to see if it exists when it is reinstalled.
So! Where oh where do I goes from here? I really don't want to have to download the trial version again. Besides, would that even work, if assumption 2 is correct? This really can't be that difficult can it?
What am I missing?
TIA,
Rich