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
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:
- Close all Microsoft Office applications.
- Run Register Editor by clicking on Start -> Run, and then type “regedit” in the Open box and press Enter key.
- 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
- 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 - Once found the correct registry subkey, delete the following values:
DigitalProductID
ProductID - Close Registry Editor.
Once Microsoft Office 2007 has been installed with no product key, proceed with the following steps:
- In Windows Explorer, brose to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
- Right click on Proof.XML file, select “Open With…” in the right click menu.
- 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.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the Proof.XML to locate the following lines:
</Feature> <Feature Id=”SetupXmlFiles” Cost=”1248″>
<OptionRef Id=”AlwaysInstalled”/>
</Feature> - 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.
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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February 19th, 2008 17:06
Was working for about a month, and know doesn’t seem to work anymore, dont have automatic updates on, and went through the process again - any ideas?
February 19th, 2008 05:42
YES BUT WHAT ABOUT THE HOME AND STUDENT EDITION?? PLEASE I JUST WANT TO GET RID OF IT THIS MAKING ME CRAZY ALREADY =(……
February 19th, 2008 02:37
Works Great on Pro Plus version downloaded from microsoft.com
Great Job any more like this
February 17th, 2008 04:17
Andrew, that didn’t work for me at all
I’ll just have to mess with the registry and then install the one I bought
February 15th, 2008 10:23
Well my friend, let me tell u that it didn’y work, i still have the same problem tha i mensioned before…..
February 15th, 2008 09:41
Found out how to uninstall
1. In Windows Explorer, browse 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:
5. Change the neverInstalled to AlwaysInstalled so that the line looks like following:
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 uninstall.
Did it myself works perfectly YOUR WELCOME
February 15th, 2008 06:21
OH GOD!!!, now is even worse, is not working and i didn’t do any updates, and now what it tells me when i try to uninstall or reinstall it is that “Setup cannot continue beacuse a required file is either corrupted or not available run setup from the original source disc or download location”, and i also did that, you know what if someone please can tell me how to uninstall it after this i will be more thna thankful, I’ll stop maessing with all this crap that all it does is make more problems, I’ll just buy the damn program, thanks…
February 15th, 2008 03:47
I followed all the process to have this cracked, and it worked for me two days since I did that… But all of a sudden, it stopped working, and now the whole office is just frezzed, and now I am like in the begining. I can’t even uninstall the whole software to get a new one…
Someone please HELP ME!!!!
February 14th, 2008 05:25
Can someone tell me what I have to do microsoft office doesn’t get eny updates, am tired of doing the process over and over again.
February 14th, 2008 02:35
well i was having the problem with changing the “Proof” file in Vista.
but there is an easy and stupid way to get around it lol.
just save the edited file to ur desktop first,
then copy the edited verson from ur desktop into the correct place of where the file actualy was.
when pasting it in the correct position just overwrite the existing one that is there (the old one).
hehe
February 13th, 2008 19:09
My information below is faulty. It appears that this crack will only hide the notification on a install from disk. I’m looking into how to fix this and hope to post back soon.
February 13th, 2008 18:40
I tried this with a original version of Office 2007 which had used up all it’s install credits. First I totally deleted the registry dealing with Office12. I then installed not putting in the activation and modified the XML file as noted and this works fine. Service Pack 1 (SP1) can now be manully installed by downloading it from the Office wedsite. The only other file that is currntly missing is the Update for Outlook Junk Mail (KB944965) that can also be downloaded manually and installed in the same fashion. Good luck all..
The PC Pal
February 9th, 2008 21:46
duh! duh! duh….it only lasts for 60 days….its just like an evaluation…the difference is it wont notify you to activate your software….
February 9th, 2008 04:44
OMG! I LOVE YOU RIGHT NOW!!!!! <3!
February 8th, 2008 06:18
ohh thanks !!!
thanks a lot i got it!!
actually i am new to vista so dint know earlier how to grant permissions.but now i hav learnt that too . now my MS is working fine thanks a lot to u .hats off!!
February 8th, 2008 05:43
hi actually i tried the hack for MS 2007 but i am not able to save the proof file . its telling path is incorrect please tell me how to do that??thanks in advance!!
February 8th, 2008 01:12
i. love. you. forever. thanks
February 7th, 2008 19:30
tou are just a genius, best regars and congratulations, it´s worked just fine
February 7th, 2008 11:33
PLEASE HELP I need to unistall this but can’t. It’s locked….PLEASE HELP!!!!
February 7th, 2008 05:21
Dudes i cant find the DigitalProductID and ProductID, Where is it? PLZZZ H3LP
THANX
February 6th, 2008 20:39
hi I have deleted the’ Product ID’ and ‘Digital product ID’. Can I recover it? Thanks!
February 5th, 2008 05:58
Err turn off automatic updates perhaps? Both in Windows and office???
February 5th, 2008 02:24
Never mind, it worked, so now what do I do so microsoft office never gets any update??
February 5th, 2008 02:13
Ok, I reintalled it, now the window that says it is expired appears, but the file mentioned doesn’t, i guess ill just do the prosses and see if it works….
February 4th, 2008 16:54
Al if that file is not there the program wont work anyway even if you hack it. I suggest you remove the program completely, dont just use the uninstall in Windows. Then Reinstall.