Microsoft Office 2007 trial expired

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NJNETSFAN

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ok when this happens I normally just go and get another trial key from microsoft and it works for another 60 days. The reason I do the trials is because I don't use the software enough to spend the $150+ it costs to have the full version. So anyway I completely unistalled office out of my computer and redownloaded it from microsoft.com and installed it with a new product key from microsoft.com and it still says my trial has expired:mad:. I'm guessing this is because microsoft got "smart" now and its in your registry somehow that you used the trial up? I'm not asking for an illegal way around this so please don't post up those responses.
 
lol, I understand, so you're just tricking your PC that you are actually installing for the first time, so your pc was clever enough to know, lol, joking, probably there's preferences left in the registry or application data folder which remains intact or points to the license, same sh*t like norton..lol
why not get the full version of office 2003 ?
 
patrickv said:
lol, I understand, so you're just tricking your PC that you are actually installing for the first time, so your pc was clever enough to know, lol, joking, probably there's preferences left in the registry or application data folder which remains intact or points to the license, same sh*t like norton..lol
why not get the full version of office 2003 ?
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Whats the difference in price between office 2003 and 2007? I mean like I said, i can't see spending $150 on a software that I don't use that often.
 
I have both 2003 and 2007. I don't like 2007. its mostly the format and looks. Anyway theres a good chance if you buy 2007 and share files they might not be compatible with other people. You have to remember to save properly for compatibility with older ver's. 2003 works fine. Im using enterprise.
 
You could just create a backup of your registry, navigate to HKCU->Software
->Microsoft->Windows->Deleting Office?
 
Yeah, maybe apj101 will issue infractions.

NJNETSFAN, why don't you try any other free word processor? You can search on download.com . Most of them are free and the setup files are also small AND they have loads of features just like MS Office...
 
adarsh said:
Yeah, maybe apj101 will issue infractions.

NJNETSFAN, why don't you try any other free word processor? You can search on download.com . Most of them are free and the setup files are also small AND they have loads of features just like MS Office...
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ah, he's not that bad right ?..hmmmm or is he ? :o:P jk
 
adarsh said:
Yeah, maybe apj101 will issue infractions.

NJNETSFAN, why don't you try any other free word processor? You can search on download.com . Most of them are free and the setup files are also small AND they have loads of features just like MS Office...
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Yup yup! Try OpenOffice. Much better than MS Office: http://www.openoffice.org/

Don't bash, I use both. MS 2003 for when I'm in XP and for work, and OO for everything else, and from my experience, OO is far superior.
 
Im still using office 2000 or something.
IDK, word processing seems pretty simple, i dont see how they couldve added too many "Must have" features.
 
I believe that the reason that it will not allow you to install the trail version again is that you have to activate the product over the internet when you install it. I don't think that there is anything that you can do on your computer to correct this, since Microsoft has your info on their end.

This was my experience with CS3. I even reformated my hard drive to factory (because of an unrelated issue) and it still would not let me install Flash CS3 again.

I could be wrong, but it makes sense.
 
axgrinder73 said:
I believe that the reason that it will not allow you to install the trail version again is that you have to activate the product over the internet when you install it. I don't think that there is anything that you can do on your computer to correct this, since Microsoft has your info on their end.

This was my experience with CS3. I even reformated my hard drive to factory (because of an unrelated issue) and it still would not let me install Flash CS3 again.

I could be wrong, but it makes sense.
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I got it to work :). Only needed to delete one file and a simple google search gave me the answer. I should have done that first. Anyway, thanks for everyone's input. I'm good until January 31st now :D. Here's the link to the fix: (I used method 3) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919895
 
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