Surprise… I did upgrade from 7 to 8. All worked fine. Entered new code in eLicenser. Fine again. But my original WLE7 was not removed… Why was it not removed ? I don’t understand…
If I go Un-install WLE7 will I damage common files to WLE8 ? Or will a clean uninstall of 7 occur ?
Or else should I simply redirect the WLE7 shortcuts to recycle bin ?
Or should I keep both versions installed in cases bugs show up in 8 ?
I think that is by design and it’s a good thing. All Steinberg products are designed to be installed side-by-side with another version. This has many benefits - the most important being the use of an older - but much more stable and mature version while the new one comes around.
I always leave my old version in place for several months after a new release…then once the new one can be totally trusted - do a bit of cleanup.
Thanks both VP and PG. Will wait for some time and do clean up as suggested.
Instead of deleting the 7 directory PG would it not be cleaner to use the un-install feature ? For the sake of killing some Windows Registry entries ? Would it be safe to un-install 7 without damaging the 8 version ?
I think we all have that one - I certainly do. It’s some sort of MP3 Encoder ‘soft’ license (one that resides on the computer hard disk). Don’t know why it’s there, but it doesn’t bother me…