I have installed Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista machine and noticed that the
virtual machine restarts every so often. The notification that I get is "the
eveluation period for this installation of windows has expired. this sytem
will shutdown in 1 hour. To restore access to this installation of windows,
please upgrade this installation using a licensed distribution of this
product."

I had downloaded this from Microsoft and wasn't aware that it wasn't
licensed. Does anyone know hoe I can upgrade to a licensed version?? Or a
work around for this with out resetting all of my settings?

Thanks,
Mike

That doesn't sound like VPC. That sounds like Windows. Since VPC 2007 is
free there is no need for a trial version. The last version that was
time-bombed was VPC 2007 beta a couple of years ago. If you are using a
beta just download the version presently available at Windows Downloads and
install it.

You do not say what the host and guest operating systems are and where you
got the copy of Windows in the guest so it is hard to tell what you are
doing.

"Mike C" <Mike C@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:133B3B8D-5332-455E-A022-3F440B0C2C82@microsoft.com...
>I have installed Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista machine and noticed that the
> virtual machine restarts every so often. The notification that I get is
> "the
> eveluation period for this installation of windows has expired. this
> sytem
> will shutdown in 1 hour. To restore access to this installation of
> windows,
> please upgrade this installation using a licensed distribution of this
> product."
>
> I had downloaded this from Microsoft and wasn't aware that it wasn't
> licensed. Does anyone know hoe I can upgrade to a licensed version?? Or
> a
> work around for this with out resetting all of my settings?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

btw, this newsgroup is for Virtual Server, not VPC. You should post future
questions for VPC at microsoft.public.virtualpc

"Mike C" <Mike C@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:133B3B8D-5332-455E-A022-3F440B0C2C82@microsoft.com...
>I have installed Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista machine and noticed that the
> virtual machine restarts every so often. The notification that I get is
> "the
> eveluation period for this installation of windows has expired. this
> sytem
> will shutdown in 1 hour. To restore access to this installation of
> windows,
> please upgrade this installation using a licensed distribution of this
> product."
>
> I had downloaded this from Microsoft and wasn't aware that it wasn't
> licensed. Does anyone know hoe I can upgrade to a licensed version?? Or
> a
> work around for this with out resetting all of my settings?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

>Does anyone know hoe I can upgrade to a licensed version??

First you have to buy a retail copy of the version of Vista you are
running in the VM, then you can change to the new product key via the
control panel / system. This is on a normal version of Vista, I'm not
sure about the eval version, it may not let you do that, and in that
case, you'll have to install Vista fresh from the copy you bought
above.

--
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>



On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:46:02 -0800, Mike C <Mike
C@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have installed Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista machine and noticed that the
>virtual machine restarts every so often. The notification that I get is "the
>eveluation period for this installation of windows has expired. this sytem
>will shutdown in 1 hour. To restore access to this installation of windows,
>please upgrade this installation using a licensed distribution of this
>product."
>
>I had downloaded this from Microsoft and wasn't aware that it wasn't
>licensed. Does anyone know hoe I can upgrade to a licensed version?? Or a
>work around for this with out resetting all of my settings?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike