Looking for Office 2003 help

Ok, I have a question or two. Hoping that someone else has ran into this.

I have a Dell Studio 15 w/ Vista H.Prem. The problem that I am having is that after I installed office 2003 and activated it. The EULA pops up each and every time I launch it. No matter what I do it pops up. I am hoping that I can rectify this problem without having to re-install office 2003. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Rob

 

Is this Office 2003 an OEM copy of another system? if yes, there is a possibility that it would not be transferred to a different comp

cheers ...

 

I can activate on up to three computers.....so I wouldn't think that could be it. Thank you though.

Rob

 

Try reactivating it through the help menu.

 

It wont let me. It tells me that it is already activated. No choice to re-activate.

Thanks,
Rob

 

This can occur if you installed the home and student edition without first removing the trial software that came on the studio.

You needed to uninstall the trial software and then install your version.

So, what do you do now? Go to controlpanel, remove anything that remotely looks like Office (including any sql reference if you had MS Office with outlook and business contact software).

Once all is gone, reboot and then install

 

The Studio only came with MS Work 9. I didn't uninstall it. Do you think that it may have caused it?

Thanks,
Rob

 

Are you certain? My niece's did

 

I just checked and it did not.

 

OK then...interesting. Is this a full user account with administrator privildges?

If not, sign in with such an account and accept the eula.

If you are using an administrator account, and it still is not working, try this (found this in a MSknowledge base article)

Regedit, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0

right click the above key and choose Permissions.

Click Users in the top box and then click to select the Allow check box for the Full Control permission.

Click OK, and then quit Registry Editor.

Start an Office program, and then accept the End User License Agreement.

Close the program. Open it? Did it work?

If so, go back in now and clear the Allow check box for the Full Control permission.

Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.

 

Will try.

Thanks

Edit......

That did the trick. Thanks so much.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

 

great to hear!