Installing Cubase 7 Trial with 6.5 already present

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I’ve already posted this question in the Cubase 6 forum - but it was suggested to me that mod activity might likely be focused on this forum, which is why I’m reposting it here. Apologies for the double post!

I have Cubase 6.5.4 installed on my system/dongle. I’m having some weird issues that I’ve not been able to resolve - issues that I’ve already described in other posts and that don’t happen in Reaper or Studio One, which is why I believe that they are problems that specifically Cubase has on my system.
So I was thinking of giving the Cubase 7 trial a go and see if it would fix those problems. I’ve downloaded the trial, but I wanted to make sure that installing it will not mess with my existing 6.5 installation and license.
I’ve noticed e.g. that the installer was going to upgrade certain plug-ins such as PadShop and others that come with the standard installation of CB 6.5, and I’m wondering what is going to happen if I allow for those updates but the trial expires.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!

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I have both 7.0.3 and 6.5.4 on my computer. I’ve kept the latter just in case version 7 had problems correctly loading older files, as someone reported (but fortunately I never actually experienced that.) 6.5.4 is still fully-functional. The plugin updates are simple bug fixes (Padshop had some preset issues that were solved by version 1.1.)

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Thanks for the answer papi61!
One question though - are you using Cubase 7 TRIAL or the full version? My fear is that the trial (and it’s eventual expiration) might cause trouble. I know that technically both versions are supposed to be fine with being there in parallel - but what happens if say I upgrade the plugins, and then the trial expires? Will everything still be functional with my existing 6.5 license?

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I’m using the full version. Plugin updates are also free for 6.5 owners, so I don’t think anything is going to happen to them.