| Most of the products that Microsoft releases always comes with a evaluation trial period and which wont work after that. Once after the trial period expires the user has to either purchase the full version or just keep quiet. Microsoft has recently released Microsoft Office 2007 with some much enhanced features when compared to the its previous release Office 2003. |
 | This Microsoft Office 2007 suit trial can be installed without the trial product key(which comes by default with the trial version) but will work in reduced functionality. 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/hack to activate Office 2007 or in other words just bypass the activation of Office 2007 60 days trial which makes the word “Trial” to disappear from the Office title at the top and suppress activation and trial expiry prompt. To use this hack to crack activation on Office 2007 either you need to install Office 2007 without any serial number or product key. In case if you have installed Office 2007 with a product key or serial number follows the below steps to clean remove Office 2007 product key |
| STEPS to remove Office 2007 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 sub key 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 sub keys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open up each sub key, and then identify the product by the ProductName value data until you locate the sub key for the product which you want to remove the existing product license key. For example: ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 5. Once found the correct registry sub key, delete the following values: DigitalProductID 6. Close Registry Editor. And once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps: |
| Here is how it goes... 1. In Windows Explorer, browse '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 and open this file with notepad 3. Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines: </Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″> Change the AlwaysInsalled to neverInstalled so that the line looks like following: <OptionRef Id=”neverInstalled”/> 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. But once it is done you won’t be able to AND can’t access any updates or Microsoft Office Online. |
