Hi Nick,

As for the VS 2005 trial version, do you mean the 180-day trials mentioned
below:

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/visualstudio/enxu/getthetrials/

Based on my experience, two possible things may cause your install expire:

** you've installed this trial before and the time is still recorded so
that you're about to reach the expire time.

** the system time on your box is not set correctly

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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