G33K-TRICKS: Use Office 2007 without activation

Monday, November 1, 2010

Use Office 2007 without activation


How to Use Office 2007 without Activating the license

To use this information to activate without any serial key on Office 2007, you need to install Office 2007.

Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps:
In Windows Explorer, browse to following folder:
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:



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

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 launch Microsoft Office 2007 application such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and etc without prompting for activation.
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:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
Note that inside the registry key, there should be another subkey that resembles the following:
__LongTerm__

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.
For example:
ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
ProductName=Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
8. Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:
DigitalProductID
ProductID
9. Close Registry Editor.

As usual, you won’t be able to and can’t access any updates or Microsoft Office Online. This information for how to test product related software.

NOTE: This info is for knowledge purpose only. Please do it on your own risk. Using Pirated Software is illegal.

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