I have vista, trial says expired, but I just intalled it what now

[mnstringer00]

I just got a new computer with vista home premium. I installed the 60 day
microsoft trial. After I installed went to go into microsoft office picture
manager and it says your trial is expired. How do I fix this?any help would
be great!

 

[Terry Farrell]

It should be valid for 60-days from installation. But my guess is that the
OEM pre-installed it as an image on the Hard Disk Drive along with Vista? So
it was only valid 60-days from the date the OEM created the hard disk image.
You will need to contact the provider. However, unless you wipe the disk and
do a complete reinstallation from a reformatted hard disk, reinstalling the
trial will not work because 'remnants' of the old installation will persist
ensuring that you cannot continue using the trial by simply
uninstalling/reinstalling it.