5 Days Left on Trial Activation - Need New Key

Jun 16, 2007, 07:38 AM #1
valechox Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	5 Days Left on Trial Activation - Need New Key I've got 5 days left on my trial activation for v3.0..... I'm a Maintenance customer who has already requested a manual key exchange from order-support@parallels because one was not sent to me. Will the new keys go out before my trial activation ends? My work hopes so....and so do I.

Jun 16, 2007, 10:42 AM #2
masonjames Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 21	I'm still waiting for my key as well... I thought for sure I'd have it this week. I haven't downlaoded the trial version yet, because of all the problems I've been reading about and I'm hoping that parallels will address theese issues with a quick update. We'll see. If you're trial ends is there a way to go back to 2.5?

Jun 16, 2007, 10:54 AM #3
snodman Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 53	When did you buy Parallels? Most of us with "Free upgrades for a year" got our keys on the same day this week (last Wednesday IIRC). I purchased during the Christmas promotion.

Jun 16, 2007, 11:03 AM #4
masonjames Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 21	I purchased my copy at the end of February. My confirmation email clearly states that I am to receive the free upgrades for a year... but I have emailed parallels and not heard anything yet.

Jun 16, 2007, 02:23 PM

David5000
Senior Member

Join: Jan 2007
Posts: 331

Quote:

Originally Posted by masonjames

I purchased my copy at the end of February. My confirmation email clearly states that I am to receive the free upgrades for a year... but I have emailed parallels and not heard anything yet.

Same here.

I am not really concerned at this point, though, because I am following dkp's advice to hold off upgrading to 3.0 at least until there is an option to disable SmartSelect, as in this thread <http://forum.parallels.com/thread12564.html>.

For my needs (no games or 3-D), 2.5 is perfectly fine, so it doesn't seem worth the risk to upgrade now.

David

Jun 16, 2007, 03:24 PM #6
wingdo Senior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 291	This is not meant as a long term solution, but solely as a means to help you whilst you wait for a real key. Parallels will send one trial key to an e-mail account, perhaps you have two e-mail addresses .......... __________________ 2.33GHz C2D MacBook Pro 3GB Ram OS X 10.4.9 XP SP2 Guest OS 768MB RAM, 32GB plain HD Vista Guest OS 1GB RAM, 16GB Expandable HD

Jun 16, 2007, 11:00 AM

Uezi
Member

Join: Sep 2006
Posts: 31

Quote:

Originally Posted by masonjames

If you're trial ends is there a way to go back to 2.5?

When you did a backup (always do backups before upgrading the PD !) of you VM's & harddisks (-file) you can uninstall PD3.0 and reinstall PD2.5 (or whatever version you had before).
If you didn't make a backup, then you'll have a problem... the files are no longer compatible, so it won't run anymore (unfortunately)...

I hope you'll get the keys in time !

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Parallels Desktop 3.0 (5580) with 768MB Memory
Windows XP Professional SP2, 512MB RAM, 15GB plain HD

Jun 16, 2007, 04:38 PM #8
valechox Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	wingdo, A wonderfully functional solution. I feel foolish not having thought of it myself.... Thanks!

Jun 16, 2007, 04:42 PM #9
seebs Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 23	Ironically, I got an upgrade key last week, even though I have no possible use for one, since I only bought after the 3.0 release!

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