Installation Wizard

[beach101]

With the new installation wizard, you must register online (or by phone) before you can finish the install. How does this work if your harddrive dies and you have to reinstall? Has anyone run into this problem?

[DonJ]

Hi,

While I haven't used Office2000 yet, it was a simple routine with Office97. Just go ahead and register again...you will have to have your numbers ready. It will not cause a problem. I've had to do that with 4 different HDD's.

Anyway, Good Luck!
DonJ


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[Darren Wilson]

My versions of Office 2000 don't require me to register them. I have had them though since their release so things could have changed.

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[Sebring]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zealing:

I too am annoyed at the forced registration that Microsoft has imposed on users. One way I found to get around this however is to edit the setup.ini file in the root of the CD. I have heard some people mention an installation from HDD so I am guessing this can apply for that, though I made changes to the setup.ini file then re-burned it to another CD. In the setup.ini file there a section that appears as follows:
;USERNAME=Customer
If you add the following line, replacing X with the products registration number, so the entry looks like:
;USERNAME=Customer
PIDKEY=X
Don't include the - between sets of numbers. When installing the software it should automatically enter this number as the Product ID so then it's just a matter of installing as usual. </font>

found this in another post, haven't tried it but might work

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[Yoshie]

I never had to register my copy of Office 2k, why would they have changed this????

Oh well....

[LagMonster]

O2k changed its distribution a little after the first service pack I think. My copy asked for a key but not to register, some you have to call. I don't agree with calling in to register at all, but I like customer satisfaction!



[This message has been edited by LagMonster (edited February 19, 2001).]

[sly69]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LagMonster:
O2k changed its distribution a little after the first service pack I think. My copy asked for a key but not to register,
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The one I have is the same way
when i reinstall I just hit exit....


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