Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sun Oct 25 11:59:49 CDT 2009
Tina: That's the Product ID but not the key that's on the yellow sticker on the back of the CD sleeve. That's what he'll need and it looks like Microsoft is not storing that in the registry. Which makes sense I guess from a licensing standpoint. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:27 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office Key Hi Rocky, I found this that may help http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895456 Following the steps I got to my own Office 2003 Product ID. I'm sending you, off-list, an image of that window. Hope this helps, T Rocky Smolin wrote: > Dear List(s): > > My son Max's HD in his Dell LT crapped out about a month ago. Dell > replaced the drive. Of course, he had no backups. I told him to send > the drive to me to see if I could recover some of the irreplaceable > files. Which I was able to do. > > When I bought him this system I also got him Office 2007. OF course, > he can't find the original install disk, but he got a copy from > someone which is working but in a few days it's going to stop working > because it's not registered. > > So my question is - is the key stored in the registry somewhere? If > so, and I could find it on the old HD, I could email it to him, he > could register the copy he's using. > > MTIA, > > > > Rocky Smolin > > Beach Access Software > > 858-259-4334 > > www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> > > www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> > > > > > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com