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  #31  
Old February 27th 18, 01:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:01:44 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

The easiest way to limit a directory to a DVD size is to create a virtual
disk drive using any virtualization software you want to use.

I know how to use Veracrypt, so that's what I use to limit the size of each
alphabetical virtual drive to a DVD disc size, but even Windows has
virtualization software (it's just harder to use than is Veracrypt).

With Veracrypt, you can quite easily create as many 4.3GB or 4.4GB
container files as there are letters in the alphabet, each of which
"mounts" as a drive letter on Windows.

For example, I have more than a dozen virtual drives, but I just mounted X:
Y: and Z: for you for this screenshot (where you'll note I was
experimenting with size limits of 4.2GB, 4.3GB, 4.4GB, 4.5GB, and 4.6GB).
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...tual_drive.jpg

It's trivial to create a virtual disk in Veracrypt, but you can also create
them with VirtualBox or any other virtualization software.

I happen to like Veracrypt


not the

(same as Truecrypt) because it's so easy to use
and it's designed exactly for this purpose.


It's what I do to backup my p0Rn. But I use TrueCrypt. I'm not
the sharing kind. Let the NSA research their own p0Rn.

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  #32  
Old February 27th 18, 02:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:30:27 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

4. From Shadow (see checksums from the second attempt below)
http://msassist.com/files/MSOffice/2.../X16-69453.exe


......
Here are the checksums from the Shadow download #4 above (the second time).
---------------------------
Checksum information
---------------------------
Name: X16-69453.exe
Size: 420496200 bytes (401 MB)

CRC32: C7B5CFD5

CRC64: 8CEE0C2A3CED82CD

SHA256: EF7A104E2CD4A75B5EF1CBBDC7D0F51B26DDEEFFF2BF0C9CF7 3844FC0C5D76D7

SHA1: 8AFE76D90D07B76CD651E8AF144B403F110D5328


MD5: fda900d81f65d1b5b35f98bd76177d55
SHA-1: 8afe76d90d07b76cd651e8af144b403f110d5328
SHA-256:
ef7a104e2cd4a75b5ef1cbbdc7d0f51b26ddeefff2bf0c9cf7 3844fc0c5d76d7

= as yours

File properties

X16-69453.exe

401 MB (420.496.200 bytes)

Date June 23 2011 21:00 (wget keeps the original file date)

Version 12.0.6500.5000

................... matches yours, but I have no idea if it's legit.
Virustotal does not do files that big.

I got the filename from he
https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...download-links

No links are active, though.

And Microsoft blocks the links to the checksums on archive.org. To
keep you "safe and secure", I suppose.

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  #33  
Old February 27th 18, 05:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Shadow wrote:

It's what I do to backup my p0Rn. But I use TrueCrypt. I'm not
the sharing kind. Let the NSA research their own p0Rn.


I've found this to be the easiest way to create dvd-sized mount points:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...unt-points.jpg

However, I've tried a few other ways to create DVD-sized mount points:
- Partitions (not easily changed)
- Quotas (too difficult to manage)
- Virtual disks (too difficult to manage)
- Container files (easy to change & easy to manage)

What I love about Truecrypt/Veracrypt (yes, not exactly the same, but the
user interface is, AFAICR, almost exactly the same) is that the GUI walks
you through the creation of DVD-sized mount points (which makes KISS manual
backing up larger-than-DVD amounts of data to dvd infinitely easier).

This is the only setup step, which is done once per size-limited volume.
1) Start Veracrypt & press "Create Volume"
2) Keep the default "Create an encrypted file container" & hit "Next"
3) Keep the default "Standard VeraCrypt volume" & hit "Next"
4) Click "Select File" to browse anywhere you like on your system
5) Type a new "File name:", e.g., C:\data\backup\discs\bck_disc01.hc
6) Hit "Save" & then "Next" & then "Next" again
7) For "Volume Size", enter "4300" and select "MB" & hit "Next"
8) For "Volume Password", enter & confirm the "space" key (or whatever)
9) Hit "Next" & press "Yes" when asked if you really want a short passwd
10) When asked if you intend to store "Large Files", keep "No" & hit "Next"
11) Randomly move the mouse, or just hit "Format"
12) Wait for a success message & hit "OK"

Note that the file name is completely arbitrary, but if it ends with *.tc
or *.hc, doubleclicking on the file will bring up VeraCrypt by default
where simply selecting a drive letter (e.g., "Z:") and entering a "space"
will mount it as its own drive.

Right-clicking "Properties" on that "Z:" drive shows:
Type: Removable Disk
File system: FAT32 (it would be NTFS if you selected large files)
Used space: 12,288 bytes (12.0KB)
Free space: 4,499,791,872 bytes (4.19GB)
Capacity: 4,499,791,872 bytes (4.19GB)

Note that we keep it below the 4.7GB limit of a normal-sized DVD.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...unt-points.jpg

If you know of a better (easier, more efficient) way to create DVD-sized
mount points, let us all know, as it's a useful skill to have in your back
pocket.

  #34  
Old February 27th 18, 07:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Paul wrote:

OK, so that's the 16299 Upgrade from Nov 2017 or so.
The release is 1709 (September) but the release date
is mid-October, and I think I installed that in
early November (no problems to report). My Insider Editions
also received it - the Insider and the Release version
cross paths on Upgrades like that, and then the Insider
diverges again, to higher Release numbers.


Thanks for figuring out that the upgrade that bricked me was the 16299
Upgrade from November 2017 (1709 release).

I looked back at all my failed updates where the release I think I was on
at the time of the bricking was in my log files as:
.. Check your OS version:
Start Settings PC Settings System About
Windows 10 Pro Version 1511 OS Build 10586.1106

I'm not quite sure exactly what happened, but I think this was the
sequence.

1. I had Windows 10 Pro set up to never update ever again (and it worked).
2. Windows 10 Pro was just fine, stuck at Version 1511 OS Build 10586.1106
3. All subsequent updates failed, but automatically backed themselves out
4. The 16299 Upgrade from Nov 2017 failed, but didn't back itself out

I think that's what happened, but I'm not totally sure because all I know
is that my machine never updated, which was fine by me, but I don't
remember which setting that did that as I had changed them all.
  #35  
Old February 27th 18, 07:31 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Shadow wrote:

matches yours, but I have no idea if it's legit.


Thanks for checking the checksums.
I'll burn it to DVD and write on it to only use in emergencies.

Thanks!
  #36  
Old February 27th 18, 09:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:50:31 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

Shadow wrote:

It's what I do to backup my p0Rn. But I use TrueCrypt. I'm not
the sharing kind. Let the NSA research their own p0Rn.


I've found this to be the easiest way to create dvd-sized mount points:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...unt-points.jpg

However, I've tried a few other ways to create DVD-sized mount points:
- Partitions (not easily changed)
- Quotas (too difficult to manage)
- Virtual disks (too difficult to manage)
- Container files (easy to change & easy to manage)

What I love about Truecrypt/Veracrypt (yes, not exactly the same, but the
user interface is, AFAICR, almost exactly the same) is that the GUI walks
you through the creation of DVD-sized mount points (which makes KISS manual
backing up larger-than-DVD amounts of data to dvd infinitely easier).

This is the only setup step, which is done once per size-limited volume.
1) Start Veracrypt & press "Create Volume"
2) Keep the default "Create an encrypted file container" & hit "Next"
3) Keep the default "Standard VeraCrypt volume" & hit "Next"
4) Click "Select File" to browse anywhere you like on your system
5) Type a new "File name:", e.g., C:\data\backup\discs\bck_disc01.hc
6) Hit "Save" & then "Next" & then "Next" again
7) For "Volume Size", enter "4300" and select "MB" & hit "Next"
8) For "Volume Password", enter & confirm the "space" key (or whatever)
9) Hit "Next" & press "Yes" when asked if you really want a short passwd
10) When asked if you intend to store "Large Files", keep "No" & hit "Next"
11) Randomly move the mouse, or just hit "Format"
12) Wait for a success message & hit "OK"

Note that the file name is completely arbitrary, but if it ends with *.tc
or *.hc, doubleclicking on the file will bring up VeraCrypt by default
where simply selecting a drive letter (e.g., "Z:") and entering a "space"
will mount it as its own drive.

Right-clicking "Properties" on that "Z:" drive shows:
Type: Removable Disk
File system: FAT32 (it would be NTFS if you selected large files)
Used space: 12,288 bytes (12.0KB)
Free space: 4,499,791,872 bytes (4.19GB)
Capacity: 4,499,791,872 bytes (4.19GB)

Note that we keep it below the 4.7GB limit of a normal-sized DVD.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...unt-points.jpg

If you know of a better (easier, more efficient) way to create DVD-sized
mount points, let us all know, as it's a useful skill to have in your back
pocket.


I use TrueCrypt with 4482269 kilobytes, which is 4589843456
bytes, which is safe with even cheapo DVDs.
You get almost 60MB more than your way.
Not that 60MB matters much these days ....

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  #37  
Old February 27th 18, 10:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Shadow wrote:

I use TrueCrypt with 4482269 kilobytes, which is 4589843456
bytes, which is safe with even cheapo DVDs.
You get almost 60MB more than your way.
Not that 60MB matters much these days ....


Thank you Shadow for that additional empirically derived suggestion for the
optimal disc size of 4,48,2269 KB, as I'll take 60 free MB any day.

I hadn't fully tested how many MB work because 4700 MB does NOT work for
sure! So I only knew it was something between 4300 MB and 4700 MB that
would safely burn to DVD.

I just tried your helpful suggestion of 4,48,2269 KB in Veracrypt, with the
following results on the hard drive.


FAT32:
The disk drive shows up as a 4.26GB Removable Disk (Z where the
right-click properties on the 4.3GB drive show a capacity of 4,580,597,760
bytes.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...drive_size.jpg

NTFS:
In a quick experiment, changing only the FAT32 to NTFS, the resulting size
shows up as a 4.27GB Removable Disk (Y where the right click properties
on the 4.3GB drive show a capacity of 4,587,454,464 bytes.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/..._size_ntfs.jpg

It's interesting that changing nothing but FAT32 to NTFS, we gain an
additional 6,856,704 bytes (7MB) for free.

Do you see any reason not to use these two settings moving forward for all?
1. 4482269 kilobytes
2. NTFS (versus FAT32)
  #38  
Old February 27th 18, 11:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:27:57 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ice2007_12.jpg

AFAIK, none of this is on the web, at least based on the results from my
searches today.

The situation is that my Win10 Pro HDD was bricked by a Microsoft Update
such that I bought a new HDD and now wish to install MS Office Pro 2007
given that I saved the 25-character product key from the old installation
(which I wrote on the case of the computer).


How can software damage a hard drive?
Did you try reformatting the old hard drive?
  #39  
Old February 27th 18, 11:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Lucifer Morningstar wrote:

How can software damage a hard drive?
Did you try reformatting the old hard drive?


Nobody said the hard drive was damaged, and, in fact, the hard drive is
perfectly good as is the memory and the motherboard, all of which was
tested by Microsoft at the Microsoft Retail Store this week.

For the tribal-knowledge summary, what "appears" to have happened is:

a. The Win10 Pro was set up to never update
b. That worked for /years/
c. All updates would attempt, fail, and then back themselves out
d. However, this latest update tried that three times
e. Then it bricked the operating system

A. Microsoft phone technical support was unable to fix it
B. Microsoft retail store in-person support was unable to fix it

1. So I bought a new terabyte HDD and now there are two
2. I had to re-install Windows 10 Pro on the new HDD (no big deal)
3. The subject of this thread was how to re-install MS Office 2007 Pro

In the end, the problem for most users is WHERE to get a known good copy of
MS Office 2007 Pro now that Heidoc isn't working (supposedly), where
Microsoft got mine from these first two URLs (only the second of which
worked for them and neither appear to work for me now).

http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/.../X16-69453.exe
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe
http://msassist.com/files/MSOffice/2.../X16-69453.exe

The trick, of course, is to have saved your MS Office 2007 Pro key, where,
I believe, mine was saved by one of the archivers.

I don't remember which one of these gives the /real/ 25-character key?
a. Sandra?
b. Belarc?
c. ShowKeyPlus?
d. MagicalJellyBean keyfinder == I think it was this?
e. ?

PS: Why didn't anyone try Heidoc?
https://www.heidoc.net/php/Windows%2...Downloader.exe

Does Heidoc no longer work?
https://s3.postimg.org/jjlidxrir/heidoc_win10.gif
  #40  
Old February 28th 18, 02:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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ultred ragnusen wrote:


PS: Why didn't anyone try Heidoc?
https://www.heidoc.net/php/Windows%2...Downloader.exe

Does Heidoc no longer work?
https://s3.postimg.org/jjlidxrir/heidoc_win10.gif


Test it and see ? The tool is re-released at regular intervals,
to counteract Microsoft meddling. As content is retired on
the actual Microsoft sourcing server, the menu on Heidoc
has a smaller and smaller list of categories.

You will need to get the most recent version, read the
release info, to get some idea what the author of Heidoc
is dealing with (this week).

Heidoc still works, but the menu could be smaller than before.

*******

Heidoc contains a coin miner, a coin miner provided by a
certain coin miner SDK. In other words, it tries to be
obvious and up-front about what it's doing.

The tool will ask you (politely) whether you will allow the
coin miner to run (for the duration of the time you allow
Heidoc to run on your system). Heidoc only need run for five
minutes or less, to copy a couple URLs using the copy buttons,
into Notepad or Firefox. Once Heidoc fakes a session with the
Microsoft server, and gets the URLs, you can dismiss Heidoc
for the hours it takes Firefox to do the actual download.

The presences of the coin miner SDK, could set off your various
AV softwares.

I can't really guess what fractions of a penny the guy gets
from doing that, but I suppose it's better than trying to
coat the interface in spam adverts.

Paul
  #41  
Old February 28th 18, 09:14 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Proin the year 2018

ultred ragnusen wrote:
Paul wrote:

OK, so that's the 16299 Upgrade from Nov 2017 or so.
The release is 1709 (September) but the release date
is mid-October, and I think I installed that in
early November (no problems to report). My Insider Editions
also received it - the Insider and the Release version
cross paths on Upgrades like that, and then the Insider
diverges again, to higher Release numbers.


Thanks for figuring out that the upgrade that bricked me was the 16299
Upgrade from November 2017 (1709 release).

I looked back at all my failed updates where the release I think I was on
at the time of the bricking was in my log files as:
. Check your OS version:
Start Settings PC Settings System About
Windows 10 Pro Version 1511 OS Build 10586.1106

I'm not quite sure exactly what happened, but I think this was the
sequence.

1. I had Windows 10 Pro set up to never update ever again (and it worked).
2. Windows 10 Pro was just fine, stuck at Version 1511 OS Build 10586.1106
3. All subsequent updates failed, but automatically backed themselves out
4. The 16299 Upgrade from Nov 2017 failed, but didn't back itself out

I think that's what happened, but I'm not totally sure because all I know
is that my machine never updated, which was fine by me, but I don't
remember which setting that did that as I had changed them all.


I suggest that when you mod the registry you make two Regedit files. One
with the original settings and one with your mods. Then before any MS
upgrades run the Original Regedit file. After you can run your mod file or
at least use it to compare to current registry to see what MS has done.

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  #42  
Old February 28th 18, 03:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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On 24/2/2018 08:27, ultred ragnusen wrote:
SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ice2007_12.jpg

AFAIK, none of this is on the web, at least based on the results from my
searches today.

The situation is that my Win10 Pro HDD was bricked by a Microsoft Update
such that I bought a new HDD and now wish to install MS Office Pro 2007
given that I saved the 25-character product key from the old installation
(which I wrote on the case of the computer).


If you have a valid Office 2007 product key, you could download its
installer via Micro$oft's official website.

https://products.office.com/en/download-office-2007

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Old February 28th 18, 07:23 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Zaidy036 wrote:

I suggest that when you mod the registry you make two Regedit files. One
with the original settings and one with your mods. Then before any MS
upgrades run the Original Regedit file. After you can run your mod file or
at least use it to compare to current registry to see what MS has done.


Thanks for that helpful suggestion where I understand what you're
suggesting, and where I have been keeping separate log files for the past
year or so on the modifications.

Problem is that there are now literally /hundreds/ of those log files, each
one of which is a /customization/ of Windows in some fashion.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/..._log_files.jpg

I think, moving forward with this new Windows 10 Pro installation, I'll try
to see if I can get used to that seemingly idiotic touch-screen default
menu (whatever it's called) so that I can customize it to be a replacement
for the simple efficient cascaded start menu of the days of old that no
longer exists (outside of classic shell customizations).
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...screenmenu.jpg
  #44  
Old February 28th 18, 07:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

Paul wrote:

Does Heidoc no longer work?
https://s3.postimg.org/jjlidxrir/heidoc_win10.gif


Test it and see ?


Hi Paul ... did you notice that screenshot was one that you posted a while
ago? I was googling for how to use Heidoc, and your helpful posts came up.

Heidoc still works, but the menu could be smaller than before.


Thanks. Had I found Heidoc before I called Microsoft Office Support, I
would have tried that - but the support guys downloaded from this digital
river archive (which doesn't work for me now).
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe
  #45  
Old February 28th 18, 07:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
ultred ragnusen
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:

If you have a valid Office 2007 product key, you could download its
installer via Micro$oft's official website.

https://products.office.com/en/download-office-2007


Hmmmmmmm.... I appreciate the help, particularly because we're now trying
to summarize for future tribal knowledge lookups, but if it was really that
simple, why did Microsoft Technical support, themselves, use this URL below
to install Microsoft Office 2007 Pro for me over the telephone?
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent..../X12-30283.exe

Nonetheless, for the tribal knowledge, I just tried that URL:
https://products.office.com/en/download-office-2007

Which says "Office 2007 is now retired".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...007retired.jpg

They have a "find more information" button here.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...ficeRetirement

Which starts off with "Farewell, Office 2007", saying "It's been a great
run, but it's time to move on...".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...07retired2.jpg
 




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