How to activate office 2007 student 30 day trial!

[computathug]

As we know, most new microsoft computers and laptops now come with a 30/60 day trial of 0ffice 2007 student edition.

You may have the Office 2007 CD and are able to install Office 2007 without entering product key. However, Office 2007 will work in reduced functionality mode, where it’s effectively just a viewer for Office documents. Beside, if you forget the trial product key, or don’t wish to register a Windows Live ID to get the trial key, here’s the trick to activate Office 2007, or more correctly, bypass the activation of Office 2007 60 days trial, and making the “trial” word disappear from the Office title at the top and suppress activation and trial expiry prompt.

To use this hack to crack activation on Office 2007, you need to install Office 2007 without any serial number or product key. If you have installed Office 2007 with a product key or serial number, do the following to clean remove Office 2007 of product key:

Close all Microsoft Office applications
.
Run Register Editor by clicking on Start -> Run, and then type “regedit” in the Open box and press Enter key.

Navigate to the following registry key:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration

Note that inside the registry key, there should be another subkey that resembles the following:

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      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE

or

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      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\{91120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE

4. If there is more than one registry entries or subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open up each subkey, and then identify the product by the ProductName value data until you locate the subkey for the product which you want to remove the existing product license key.

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ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
ProductName=Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007

5. Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:

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DigitalProductID
ProductID

6. Close Registry Editor.

Now install office 2007 without the product identification key then follow these steps

In Windows Explorer, browse to the following folder:

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C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\

Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
In the “Open With” window, select Notepad to be used to open the XML file. In Vista, if you can’t see the Notepad option, simply double click the “Other Programs” to unhide it.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:

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</Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″>
<OptionRef Id=”AlwaysInstalled”/>
</Feature>

Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following:

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<OptionRef Id=”neverInstalled”/>

Save the Proof.xml file. In Windows Vista, you may need to take ownership and grant full access permission to yourself before able to modify the file.

You can now use office 2007 without activation.

enjoy

[str33tl0rd]

nice!, but isn't this sorta against the suck-o rules..i don't know; but you are cracking a software...unless you have forgetten your product key. That could be a reason.

[Still_Learning]

I dont see anything wrong with that. My version was actully free from MS. No serial ever needed. Not a ware. I have the ISO as well backed up.

Big companys like MS are cracking us or our boss everyday for alot of our money. Its a 2 way street.

[computathug]

Well if one of the other admins casts this thread to be out of context, then they can feel free to move it or delete it.

I wouldn't call this a crack or warez. Cracks and warez are "to me" where the activation key has been changed or altered in some form. All that happened here is a removal of a registry file so that the program becomes usable. No activation key is used at all...... let's call it a tweak :XD

Although the software will work, you will still not be able to access updates or office online.

This is not for people to use the information for illegal purposes but for educational reasons only!!!

[rhysh]

lol

ms is are uber 1337 noobs

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0FF1CE 

maybe they will be uber leet h4x0rs one day-or not

[DNR]

This admin deems this tweak very good and not to worry about the doomsayers

DNR