60-day Project Standard 2003 Trial only works 1 day

[TAnony]

Yesterday, I downloaded Project Standard 2003 Trial Software from
http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/prodinfo/trial.mspx. The website
says, "The trial is valid for 60 days from the date of activation."



This morning, when I try to open the project I began yesterday, the
following message appears, "This trial copy of Microsoft Office Project 2003
has expired. For more information about Microsoft Project, please visit
your local reseller or see our World Wide Website at
http://www.microsoft.com/project/."



Is there a fix?



Thanks.

T. Adams

 

[George King]

I had the same problem with Project 2002 about year and a half ago.
Turns out that there was a hard coded date in the trial version that didn't
let it work after that date. Project 2003 has been out long enough (more
than a year) that I suspect that's the case here, too. The web page doesn't
tell you that, but that's my guess.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

There's a registry key that gets set in error from time to time. Don't have
the article number right handy at the moment but a search of the knowledge
base support.microsoft.com should turn up the fix for you.

 

[Bsymes]

My MS Project trial copy has also stopped. Please provide more specific
directions for fixing this problem. Thanks

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

Go Start / Run / "regedit"
Then change the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/10.0/MSProject/Options/General/FirstBoot

to equal 1