Before, I thought it was... if you uninstall and try to reinstall... it wouldxcome up and say that your trial had expired. My V5 did this and I contacted support and they hooked it up for me.

Possibly something with your Clock, Registry, Installation?

You'll definitely need to contact support for this one.

If you figure it out please post it. I accidentally ordered the boxed version instead of the download. No big deal I thought, I'll just use the demo while I'm waiting for the package to arrive. Unfortunately I can't. I got a "your trial period has expired" message the first time I tried to run it!

Nice to see that Vegas 6 has the samE "30 DAY" trial that Vegas 5. lol! Seriously - when I installed Vegas 5 it had all kinds of issues - you know - phone home to register/verify than say "thanks" but than say "You need to register" and so on - finally after like 10 times it did work and it said I had a 30 day demo. less than 24 hours went by and it was "Thanks for trying. Your demo is expired" and of course Sony pointed out then, and now, that one cannot install and than uninstall Vegas and expect it to work. (At least in reguards to demos go)

i think, as far as the "30 day" demo goes you are hosed. You need to wait for the SN or just call up and if you have ordered (via SOny that is) they should have the info and be able to give the SN over the phone.

why not just cancel the order? They haven't shiped yet (mine hasn't)

I'm on a dialup & this version is WAY to big to d/l in a reasonable ammount of time. Plus the box verson saves me a couple bucks of your DL people (SFX CD included in my V6 package & I get free shipping!)

If you are using XP you can try and use the restore wizard and go back to a day before the install of the trail version. After you finish the restore, check your clock and date to make certain is correct and try to re-install. It should work.

Try an uninstall from Control Panel (add remove programs) instead of simply running the setup again (ie installing over the top).

I had this same "0 days left" message whilst activating DVDArchitect3.
I also got stuck in the trial mode of Vegas by way of changing my "title" when I activated from a remote computer. I changed my details in the web interface but not on the machine I generated the activate vegas.htm file on.

The result of leaving it all alone after creation, was a different key back from Sony that successfully unlocked Vegas6. I am usually pretty good at these sorts of things and it caught me for over an hour of cogitation (aided by not having a floppy or flash drive on both ends, so had to burn a CDRW for each part of the transfer!).

So I doubt the clock is bust on our friends PC. I expect something else has got in the way.

I think Sony should make it more obivous whether folks should download the trial or the non-trial version. The sizes are the same but it isn't clear that the trial version can be activated within or after the 30 day period.

Use the program called "goback" whenever installing new software (now distributed by symantec or mcaffee, forgot), formerly roxio .. it will let you "revert your drive" to say 20 minutes before you installed, or yesterday, whatever... excellent program.

ken

I ordered my boxed version Monday, it was here Tuesday. THey are shipping. Now if I could just finish the project I am working on to free up some time to install and play........

If you figure it out please post it. I accidentally ordered the boxed version instead of the download. No big deal I thought, I'll just use the demo while I'm waiting for the package to arrive. Unfortunately I can't. I got a "your trial period has expired" message the first time I tried to run it!

That's EXACTLY what happened to me. I wonder if it contacted "home" and found out we had placed an order?