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Office 2007 license
I have a perfectly valid Office 2007 license which I've moved from computer
to computer since XP days, and which won't activate over the Internet on a recently reimaged Windows 2010 desktop. The last time this happened (years ago), I had to call Microsoft who wouldn't use the valid key I read to them, where they insisted, on the phone, that I had to dig up the original box and read something (I don't remember what) off that original box. Now I can't find the box again - but I probably can waste a few hours digging it up if I must. My question to you is how many times can a valid Microsoft Office 2007 license be "re-used" on your home machines, when it's NOT in use on any machine at the moment? (It's still literally sitting on some of the old disks but they're not bootable so they're no longer the C drive.) Do you know if there is a limit of how many *sequential* machines you can move a license to over the decades? |
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"Louis Fabron" wrote in message news
I have a perfectly valid Office 2007 license which I've moved from computer to computer since XP days, and which won't activate over the Internet on a recently reimaged Windows 2010 desktop. The last time this happened (years ago), I had to call Microsoft who wouldn't use the valid key I read to them, where they insisted, on the phone, that I had to dig up the original box and read something (I don't remember what) off that original box. Now I can't find the box again - but I probably can waste a few hours digging it up if I must. My question to you is how many times can a valid Microsoft Office 2007 license be "re-used" on your home machines, when it's NOT in use on any machine at the moment? (It's still literally sitting on some of the old disks but they're not bootable so they're no longer the C drive.) Do you know if there is a limit of how many *sequential* machines you can move a license to over the decades? This may be of some help in getting it activated. Use the phone method you provide a long installation ID code that you get to when trying to activate and MS gives you a long string of numbers back that activate the product. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ivation-wizard -- Bob S. |
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On 9/22/18 1:53 PM, Bob_S wrote:
"Louis Fabron"Â* wrote in message news I have a perfectly valid Office 2007 license which I've moved from computer to computer since XP days, and which won't activate over the Internet on a recently reimaged Windows 2010 desktop. The last time this happened (years ago), I had to call Microsoft who wouldn't use the valid key I read to them, where they insisted, on the phone, that I had to dig up the original box and read something (I don't remember what) off that original box. Now I can't find the box again - but I probably can waste a few hours digging it up if I must. My question to you is how many times can a valid Microsoft Office 2007 license be "re-used" on your home machines, when it's NOT in use on any machine at the moment? (It's still literally sitting on some of the old disks but they're not bootable so they're no longer the C drive.) Do you know if there is a limit of how many *sequential* machines you can move a license to over the decades? This may be of some help in getting it activated.Â* Use the phone method you provide a long installation ID code that you get to when trying to activate and MS gives you a long string of numbers back that activate the product. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ivation-wizard If you get too ****ed at them, give Libre Office a spin: http://libreoffice.org |
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Bob_S wrote:
This may be of some help in getting it activated. Use the phone method you provide a long installation ID code that you get to when trying to activate and MS gives you a long string of numbers back that activate the product. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ivation-wizard I deleted the old office 2007 installations even though they were on disks that were no longer used as the primary disk so the office on them wasn't in the registry anyways. The activation online worked after a few boots after doing that. I didn't do the activation right away because I didn't think just deleting files would work. a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=331hir4" target="_blank"img src="http://i64.tinypic.com/331hir4.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"/a Do you think deleting the inactive office files was the reason it worked? |
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"Louis Fabron" wrote in message news
Bob_S wrote: This may be of some help in getting it activated. Use the phone method you provide a long installation ID code that you get to when trying to activate and MS gives you a long string of numbers back that activate the product. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ivation-wizard I deleted the old office 2007 installations even though they were on disks that were no longer used as the primary disk so the office on them wasn't in the registry anyways. The activation online worked after a few boots after doing that. I didn't do the activation right away because I didn't think just deleting files would work. a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=331hir4" target="_blank"img src="http://i64.tinypic.com/331hir4.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"/a Do you think deleting the inactive office files was the reason it worked? My guess is that the hardware ID that is used by the Activation Wizard was the old ID. By deleting the old files it was forced to build a new hardware ID - essentially saying this is a new clean install of Office. What counts is that you have it activated now. -- Bob S. |
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On 22/09/2018 21:28, Louis Fabron wrote:
My question to you is how many times can a valid Microsoft Office 2007 license be "re-used" on your home machines, when it's NOT in use on any machine at the moment? There are no limits on how many times you have installed a particular Microsoft application. The only restriction is whether it was an OEM version or not. With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Your can use the latest version of Word, and Excel free of charge by using Microsoft account and using the online version of these applications. The last thing you want to do is to use the pirated copies which Johnson and his male homosexual partner WhetherMan are peddling. They will put you in trouble with the law enforcement officers in your country. Microsoft is respected all over the world and they can demand that action be taken against thieves. Do you know if there is a limit of how many *sequential* machines you can move a license to over the decades? The old software allowed you to install on two devices simultaneously and so this applies to Office 2007. With Office 2010 this was changed to only one machine but there was nothing to stop you from installing on a new machine that you might buy after your old machine failed for any reasons. Have you thought of getting Office 365? It allows you to install on 5 devices (Home edition) and activation/deactivation can be controlled by you, the user, by logging in to your account and deleting the machine that you no longer use so that the number 5 remains within your control. The annual subscription is pretty low. It works out £80 (UKP) but I can use it on 5 machines. We get deals from time to time and the price falls so you can try searching for any deals still going in your country. Finally, the online version of Word & Excel is free and you can save the file on your hard disk. It is yours for life to us and you control the documents; Not Microsoft as some idiots keep misinforming people for publicity. You really need to use your own brain and pay less attention to spivs and thieves. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
[-- text/plain, encoding 8bit, charset: utf-8, 52 lines --] On 22/09/2018 21:28, Louis Fabron wrote: My question to you is how many times can a valid Microsoft Office 2007 license be "re-used" on your home machines, when it's NOT in use on any machine at the moment? There are no limits on how many times you have installed a particular Microsoft application. The only restriction is whether it was an OEM version or not. With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Are you saying old unsupported Office users won't be able to activate their legal copies? I still have 2007 and just activate it last year or so. :/ Your can use the latest version of Word, and Excel free of charge by using Microsoft account and using the online version of these applications. The last thing you want to do is to use the pirated copies which Johnson and his male homosexual partner WhetherMan are peddling. They will put you in trouble with the law enforcement officers in your country. Microsoft is respected all over the world and they can demand that action be taken against thieves. But you have to be online. No offline. My Internet can be unstable so I prefer local offline version. -- Quote of the Week: "There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime." --They Might Be Giants' Ant Song Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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On 23/09/2018 20:55, Ant wrote:
With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Are you saying old unsupported Office users won't be able to activate their legal copies? I still have 2007 and just activate it last year or so. :/ I am saying that the servers are no longer available. You'll need to use the phone method and beg to Microsoft Call Center Staff to give you the code to activate it manually. The code is pretty long and you might need to ask them to repeat it so that it works on your machine. If it doesn't work and you phone them again, you'll be shocked to be told that you have just activated and they can't help you second time. The servers for old products are not reliable. People say they come online some day and sometimes they are dead for weeks. I don't use old, out-of-support products so can't say anything more than what I have read. Why can't you take out a subscription which gives you full control over your 5 devices? That's the best way IMO. You can login to your account and remove devices that are dead and activate a new device in its place. With old products this was not possible. Your can use the latest version of Word, and Excel free of charge by using Microsoft account and using the online version of these applications. The last thing you want to do is to use the pirated copies which Johnson and his male homosexual partner WhetherMan are peddling. They will put you in trouble with the law enforcement officers in your country. Microsoft is respected all over the world and they can demand that action be taken against thieves. But you have to be online. No offline. My Internet can be unstable so I prefer local offline version. Where do you live? I thought Internet is pretty much reliable these days in all major cities of the world. South Korea has the best connections but London, New York, Moscow, Paris California, Tokyo, and even Hong Kong can come close to what Koreans can get. If you are in Africa then you shouldn't to worry about internet because people there hate everything created by their white colonial masters. even Muslims are boycotting western technologies; Iran has a dedicated team inventing their own technologies. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
[-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: utf-8, 51 lines --] On 23/09/2018 20:55, Ant wrote: With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Are you saying old unsupported Office users won't be able to activate their legal copies? I still have 2007 and just activated it last year or so. :/ I am saying that the servers are no longer available. You'll need to use the phone method and beg to Microsoft Call Center Staff to give you the code to activate it manually. The code is pretty long and you might need to ask them to repeat it so that it works on your machine. If it doesn't work and you phone them again, you'll be shocked to be told that you have just activated and they can't help you second time. The servers for old products are not reliable. People say they come online some day and sometimes they are dead for weeks. I don't use old, out-of-support products so can't say anything more than what I have read. Wow, that sucks. But you have to be online. No offline. My Internet can be unstable so I prefer local offline version. Where do you live? I thought Internet is pretty much reliable these days in all major cities of the world. South Korea has the best connections but London, New York, Moscow, Paris California, Tokyo, and even Hong Kong can come close to what Koreans can get... I live in a rural area. -- Quote of the Week: "There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime." --They Might Be Giants' Ant Song Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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Ant wrote:
I live in a rural area. Third-world-USA too, eh? -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On 9/24/2018 4:04 PM, Ant wrote:
???? Good Guy ???? wrote: [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: utf-8, 51 lines --] On 23/09/2018 20:55, Ant wrote: With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Are you saying old unsupported Office users won't be able to activate their legal copies? I still have 2007 and just activated it last year or so. :/ I am saying that the servers are no longer available. You'll need to use the phone method and beg to Microsoft Call Center Staff to give you the code to activate it manually. The code is pretty long and you might need to ask them to repeat it so that it works on your machine. If it doesn't work and you phone them again, you'll be shocked to be told that you have just activated and they can't help you second time. The servers for old products are not reliable. People say they come online some day and sometimes they are dead for weeks. I don't use old, out-of-support products so can't say anything more than what I have read. Wow, that sucks. But you have to be online. No offline. My Internet can be unstable so I prefer local offline version. Where do you live? I thought Internet is pretty much reliable these days in all major cities of the world. South Korea has the best connections but London, New York, Moscow, Paris California, Tokyo, and even Hong Kong can come close to what Koreans can get... I live in a rural area. I have not tried to update Office, but have downloaded other programs. With each I saved the downloaded program, to a backup disk so that I do not have to go back online and download it again. Can you not do the same with office? -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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? Good Guy ? wrote:
With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live. Not so sure about that. I bought a new computer at the end of April, just five months ago. I had no trouble installing and activating my copy of Office 2007. So OPs troubles are something else, he shouldn't have to use an online version. -- Tim Slattery tim at risingdove dot com |
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