Removing demo of a program when it insists that the full version be removed first

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Published on 2010-05-25T19:41:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 19:41 UTC
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I have a program that i both recently installed the demo for, and just installed the full version of. When i try to uninstall the demo, it says that an existing version of the program was found at the full program's path, and must be removed before the installer can be launched.

I just want to uninstall the demo; is there any way without removing the full version of the software? (if it matters, it's Sins of a Solar Empire, but i'm hoping it won't get closed as that's merely incidental)

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