7/3/08: UPDATE. Office 2007 apparently stops working after awhile even if the solution listed below is applied.

What do you do when your computer hard drive crashes and you try to re-install Office 2007 and you get the dreaded “Product Key already registered” (or similar) message? I found a great tutorial on this at My Digital Life:

Hack to Activate Microsoft Office 2007 Evaluation Trial Version
Most suites or programs of Microsoft Office 2007 allows user to evaluate the product. The trial version of 2007 Microsoft Office system can be installed by using a 25-character trial product key available from Microsoft while you download the free Office software, and you can use the Microsoft Office 2007 suite or program with full functionality for 60 days.

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.

Note that to use Microsoft Office 2007 beyond 60 days trial period, you need to purchase a valid license for it, available from Amazon or most computer retail store.

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:

1. Close all Microsoft Office applications.
2. Run Register Editor by clicking on Start -> Run, and then type “regedit” in the Open box and press Enter key.
3. 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:

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

   or

   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.
   For example:
    

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

5. Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:
   DigitalProductID
   ProductID
6. Close Registry Editor.

Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps:

1. In Windows Explorer, brose to the following folder:
   C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
2. Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
3. 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.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:
   </Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″>
   <OptionRef Id=”AlwaysInstalled”/>
   </Feature>
5. Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following:
   <OptionRef Id=”neverInstalled”/>
6. 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.
7. You can now launch Microsoft Office 2007 application such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and etc without prompting for activation.

As usual, as it’s a hack, and before you purchase a valid product key for it, you won’t be able to AND can’t access any updates or Microsoft Office Online.

Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only.

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Sure, Obama HUSSEIN won’t visit Iraq: that would lend legitimacy to the effort over there, something anti-American-communist-traitor-terrorists would never do. Since he thinks open talks with Iran are so freaking vital, let’s see if we can get him over there on a freaking one-way ticket. Let him hang out there with his kinfolk, then see if he wants to come back.

Read more about this HERE.

Bob Dole caused us to suffer four more years of Clintonian misery because “It was his turn” to run for President. Blast. During that lame, weak, sissy, pathetic campaign, Dole could hardly bring himself to argue with Clinton, let alone rail on him. Railing is what Dole did when writing to Scott McClellan.

Read about this HERE and HERE.

From the article:

Illegal immigration is emerging as a top issue in this year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina.

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, the Republican incumbent, and Kay Hagan, the Democratic challenger, both made public appearances this week alongside county sheriffs in which they talked about how local law-enforcement officials can cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

But the candidates disagree on the effectiveness and the financial cost of a program that allows local officials to screen criminal suspects for immigration status.

Dole is a big supporter of the program, which is nicknamed the “287(g) program” after the section of federal immigration law that established it.

In North Carolina, four sheriff’s offices in four counties — Alamance, Cabarrus, Gaston and Mecklenburg — currently use the program at their county jails, and three other counties — Cumberland, Henderson and Wake — are training to use the program. The Durham city police department also has the program, which allows jailers to check the immigration status of people who have been arrested for other crimes.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think Elizabeth Dole is worth her weight in sh*t.

Read the article HERE.

Michelle Malkin is trying to feed us all this jive saying that Bush and the Proliferation Security Initiative are good things. WRONG! Through the misnomer “Security,” Bush has furthered the cause of the “New World Order” while brining in strong-arm government oppression of citizens through the back door. If Bush was concerned about security, he would do something about the foreign invasion that is nothing short of an act of war perpetrated upon us by Mexico and the other governments of Central America.

C’mon Michelle! Get over it! Bush is a fascist sissy dud of the highest order. He has destroyed much of our country through lies about making us more secure.

Read the article HERE.

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It’s all just speculation though, so take it for what it’s worth.

Read more HERE.

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LONDON - Former president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time any US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state’s atomic arsenal.

“The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union has about the same, Great Britain, and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry . . . not only of enormous weaponry but of rockets to deliver those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target,” he said, according to a transcript of his remarks.

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Seriously, before Jimmy Carter was just an ignorant, foolish, meddlesome bastard of a clown. Now he’s interfering with the security of the “Free” world. He needs to go, folks.

Read the article HERE.

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Read more about this HERE and HERE.

You know things are going well when the Democrat media doesn’t have anything bad to say.

Read about it HERE.

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I don’t care if Subway offers it’s foot-long subs for FREE, I will never walk into another Subway store for the rest of my life.

Read the article HERE. Read more HERE.

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