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Old September 22nd 18, 09:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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Default 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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Old September 22nd 18, 09:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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


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Old September 22nd 18, 09:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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.



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Old September 23rd 18, 08:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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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Old September 23rd 18, 08:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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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.


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.
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Old September 23rd 18, 09:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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.



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Old September 23rd 18, 09:24 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Tim Slattery[_2_]
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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.

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Old September 24th 18, 09:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Ant[_2_]
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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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 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.
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Old September 24th 18, 09:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Ant wrote:
I live in a rural area.


Third-world-USA too, eh?

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Old September 24th 18, 09:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Ant wrote:
I live in a rural area.


Third-world-USA too, eh?


Yep.
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Old September 24th 18, 09:26 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Keith Nuttle
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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?

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Old September 24th 18, 09:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Louis Fabron
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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.
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Do you think deleting the inactive office files was the reason it worked?
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Old September 24th 18, 09:37 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 24/09/2018 21:26, Keith Nuttle wrote:


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?


He's talking about activation of Office 2007. He's got the DVD for the
original product but it requires activation and for that you need Internet.

Office 365 is wonderful. You activate it once and forget about it. You
can reinstall the APP on another machine by taking your portable device
to your local Internet Cafe and activate from there. Your other machine
can be de-activated online as well. Microsoft is trialling Windows 365
for Enterprise and hopefully this will be rolled-out in two years time
to home users as well.


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Old September 25th 18, 12:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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.
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