I downloaded the evaluation Visual Studio 2008 edition from MS's site and installed it. My 90 days are just about up. I purchased a MSDN Premium subscription which obviously has Visual Studio in it. I don't want to necessarily uninstall my existing VS installation because I don't know what it will delete on the system. Do you just install the VS from my MSDN subscription over the existing installation? I am in middle of a project and really hate to screw-up my system.
Hi, You will screw up your system more if you don't uninstall it first. You should never upgrade an operating system, software or drivers over the top of old ones. For an o/s you should wipe the whole boot drive, do a block level scan in the SCSI BIOS for bad sectors, re-create the boot loader and partitions then re-load the o/s. For software you should uninstall, check the registry for any left-overs then install the new one. Visual Studio is one of the few software titles that is designed properly for windows, in that it respects the user's home directory and separates settings into the user profile. Gene Berger wrote: > I downloaded the evaluation Visual Studio 2008 edition from MS's site and installed it. My 90 days are just about up. > > I purchased a MSDN Premium subscription which obviously has Visual Studio in it. > > I don't want to necessarily uninstall my existing VS installation because I don't know what it will delete on the system. Do you just install the VS from my MSDN subscription over the existing installation? > > I am in middle of a project and really hate to screw-up my system. > > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)
Thanks. "Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message news:uNh8ydwqIHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > You will screw up your system more if you don't uninstall it first. You > should never upgrade an operating system, software or drivers over the top > of old ones. > > For an o/s you should wipe the whole boot drive, do a block level scan in > the SCSI BIOS for bad sectors, re-create the boot loader and partitions > then re-load the o/s. > > For software you should uninstall, check the registry for any left-overs > then install the new one. > > Visual Studio is one of the few software titles that is designed properly > for windows, in that it respects the user's home directory and separates > settings into the user profile. > > Gene Berger wrote: >> I downloaded the evaluation Visual Studio 2008 edition from MS's site and >> installed it. My 90 days are just about up. >> >> I purchased a MSDN Premium subscription which obviously has Visual Studio >> in it. >> >> I don't want to necessarily uninstall my existing VS installation because >> I don't know what it will delete on the system. Do you just install the >> VS from my MSDN subscription over the existing installation? >> >> I am in middle of a project and really hate to screw-up my system. >> >> > > > -- > Gerry Hickman (London UK)
