Upgrading from PD11 to PD12

Yousefz

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Dec 02, 2013 06:57

Hello,

Last year I have purchsed the PowerDirector 11 Ultimate Suite, I would like to upgrade it to the new PowerDirector 12 Ultimate.

Shall I uninstall the PD11 before installing PD12 or the upgrade version request the PD11 ?

Or if I decide to install the new PD12 on other laptop after unistalling the exist copy, do I have to install PD11 first then PD12 or PD12 can be installed as fresh or new installation ?

regards,

Yousef

PlaySound

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Dec 02, 2013 08:50

Quote: Hello,

Last year I have purchsed the PowerDirector 11 Ultimate Suite, I would like to upgrade it to the new PowerDirector 12 Ultimate.

Shall I uninstall the PD11 before installing PD12 or the upgrade version request the PD11 ?

Or if I decide to install the new PD12 on other laptop after unistalling the exist copy, do I have to install PD11 first then PD12 or PD12 can be installed as fresh or new installation ?

regards,

Yousef

Install PD12 Ultra, PD11 installed it will detect and ask if you want to uninstall now, confirm and move on.
In my case the 1st installation of PD12, PD11 remained installed for a while.

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Yousefz

Member Joined: Nov 14, 2012 04:14 Messages: 106 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 09:11

Thank you playsound for your reply.

Is it possible to install upgrade version of PD12 as a fresh or new installation on other PC ?

Regards

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 13:25

Quote: Thank you playsound for your reply.

Is it possible to install upgrade version of PD12 as a fresh or new installation on other PC ?

Regards

I have heard that the Upgrade version of PD 12 will ask for the Product Key of the version you are upgrading from.
Usually you must have the previous version installed on the computer.

I have no direct experience with upgrades as most of my Powerdirector installs have been the full version.
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stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Dec 02, 2013 15:44

I have done upgrades and the previous version needs to be there. In some cases, when it can;t find it, it MAY ask you for the key. I think different upgrades are different.

You are doing the right thing by uninstalling the program from one computer, installing it to the other computer and then upgrading that.

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Yousefz

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Dec 03, 2013 07:57

Thanks to all of you.

It is a good idea to upgrade without previous version installed if it could ask just for the key .