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.
Note: The hack may work for 60 days only. To make this hack fully working, try to delete additional file below, probably has to be deleted every two months:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA\opa12.dat
Or,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OFFICE\DATA (for Windows 7 and Vista)
Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only.
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October 3rd, 2008 08:35
When I try to save the proof.XML file, it says it cannot create the file. Any way to fix this?
October 3rd, 2008 00:45
where i haveto save this ???????
October 3rd, 2008 00:43
wo soll ich das speichern ????????
October 2nd, 2008 16:50
i was using vista. and i followed the instructions. maybe we could add make sure we disable user account control before editing proof.xml… still, this has worked well! thanks much.
October 2nd, 2008 15:50
Thanks, Dimezanime88
you realy helped me!!
October 2nd, 2008 07:39
Show. Muito bem explicado e fucionou. Obrigado
October 2nd, 2008 05:08
HELP!!! PLEASE HELP !!!
“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.”
how do you do that?
I get an error when trying to save the file.
October 2nd, 2008 02:35
Thank you so much my friend!!
October 1st, 2008 22:53
Changed that word now I have full function on all progs. great get around
October 1st, 2008 21:26
lol @ osama.
anyway thanks for the article. worked for me
October 1st, 2008 19:23
POo Muito abrigado pela explicação
tava tentando fazer isso ha muito tempo mas nunca dava certo !!!Muito Obribado Valew Mesmo !!!
September 30th, 2008 13:14
YOu are the best man .thank you alot it is work and every thing is Fine ….Thanks again
September 30th, 2008 10:45
worked, am blissfully happy.
September 30th, 2008 02:10
I done it. It does skip the promt. But like before, I cant edit it. Only view. How fix?
September 29th, 2008 22:33
Don’t work after 25 times you open this.
The edit on XML file (always to never) only removes the reminder/activation message. thats it!!!
September 29th, 2008 18:29
I have bookmarked it, FANTASTIC
September 29th, 2008 18:04
thank you so much
September 29th, 2008 03:01
Amazing! it actually works
its pretty easy too.
THANKS!
September 27th, 2008 12:58
It worked
but i think the best way to get around locked is to uninstall it delete all office registry keys and reinstall and foloow same procedure
September 24th, 2008 03:39
grande grazie infinite F U N Z I O N A !!
September 24th, 2008 00:33
hey this is crap. i did exacly what i had to do and after around 20 uses the program locks back up. It’s no use to do it this way.
September 22nd, 2008 05:12
you spelled browse, brose. HAHAHA N00B!
September 19th, 2008 09:59
I used it for about a week now it says that it is locked, is there a way to fix this?
September 19th, 2008 04:43
Followed the exact path in the regedit, and nothing that the article creator mentioned was in there, and I am using the exact version that he mentioned…
Terrific…
September 18th, 2008 05:37
This worked for about a month, now it opens and let’s me see the file but not modify in any way, it say’s it’s locked and the bottom states “This modification is not allowed because the document is locked” and the button to change it is also locked/grayed as well as other simple function buttons.
Again it worked for a while, so everything was done right.