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 13th, 2008 17:08
# James
October 11th, 2008 02:10
616
Are you fuckin touched in tha head… All of ya ,>
# James
October 11th, 2008 02:08
615
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Check Out Prev Pages ,>
# James
October 11th, 2008 02:07
614
Are you fuckin TOUCHED IN THE HEAD ,>
That Shit itz Working but… anyway.. Keep trying… Keep trying.. maybe 1 day u got Luck ,>
October 13th, 2008 05:32
Mitty
October 10th, 2008 00:00 610Save 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.<<<<<<<<<<<
Read!
Open notepad.exe as administrator and then open the proof file in notepad, edit and save. voila.
HOW DO YOU OPEN NOTEPAD AS ADMINISTRATOR ?? I’M HAVING THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH SAVING
October 13th, 2008 05:24
It wont let me do the very last bit
Do i save or save as a different file? if i save as a different file, do i need to delete the old file?
slightly baffled, please help
October 13th, 2008 04:41
It works about 1-2 moths then it wown’t work any more, just wait and see
October 13th, 2008 03:51
Thanks, it worked.
October 11th, 2008 15:30
Nevermind, I figure it out.
Thanks A LOT!!
For some odd reason, my whole Office 2003 just wouldn’t work anymore– asking to input the disk (which I’ve misplaced already, 2 years being the excuse) so I had to find a way to access all my word documents.
This helped a lot, thanks.
October 11th, 2008 15:23
What does it mean by “the following values” ??
I opened regedit then got to the 4th step, can someone please explain this?
October 11th, 2008 13:58
hi i uninstalled the microsoft office 2007 home and student that came with the system then reinstalled it and changed it to “neverinstall” but microsoft word still doesnt work
October 11th, 2008 04:59
it works and i love it! thanks dude!!!
October 11th, 2008 02:10
Are you fuckin touched in tha head… All of ya ,>
October 11th, 2008 02:08
Well…Not Whatz on Dis page..Whatz on Dis Page Its Not Help you ,>
Check Out Prev Pages ,>
October 11th, 2008 02:07
Are you fuckin TOUCHED IN THE HEAD ,>
That Shit itz Working but… anyway.. Keep trying… Keep trying.. maybe 1 day u got Luck ,>
October 10th, 2008 22:08
Doesn’t work at all! Don’t waste your time!
October 10th, 2008 17:03
Please reply as soon as possible Thanks.
HELP! Please!
I am using an adiminstrator account with windows vista.
But i cant change it.
How do i take ownership and grant full access permission to myself before able to modify the file??
Please help me asap.
Thanks
October 10th, 2008 16:59
HELP! Please!
I am using an adiminstrator account with windows vista.
But i cant change it.
How do i take ownership and grant full access permission to myself before able to modify the file??
Please help me asap.
Thanks
October 10th, 2008 00:00
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.<<<<<<<<<<<
Read!
Open notepad.exe as administrator and then open the proof file in notepad, edit and save. voila.
October 9th, 2008 23:13
Ótimo post!
Funcionou perfeitamente!
Vlw
October 9th, 2008 13:47
I typed this in to the proof.xml. When i went 2 save this file, it wouldn’t let me save it. It sayed to check the path and file name. how do i save the file??????
October 8th, 2008 20:19
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October 7th, 2008 17:38
Don’t waste your time with this sh!T !!!
October 7th, 2008 11:11
Hi, I did this about 2 months ago and I received an Email this morning saying my trial has officially ended with Microsoft.
Despite this hack it still disabled my account and I can no longer get it to work.
I’ve retried the hack and all the right registries are deleted and the “neverInstalled” is still in its place, but I can no longer access Office 2007 properly.
Help anyone?
October 5th, 2008 21:51
I installed it on Vista.
It seems to work, but in reality it doesn’t work.
Alright, the messages do not appear, but as Jason experienced, after x number of tries, everything becomes readonly.
Trouble: you cannot make a clean uninstall. So it is just a fake hack.
My opinion: don’t waste your time with this!
October 5th, 2008 10:47
Thank you so much dude!
It works really well once you figure out how to grant yourself permission to change the files.
October 5th, 2008 02:24
CHECK THIS SHIT OUT ,>
Luke
August 13th, 2008 18:39
505
thx for the awesome crack “el|te |t´s a Trap …”
Use it people =] ~it rocks sockz, not many things can rock sockz~
http://rapidshare.com/files/95093505/MS_office_2007_ultimate_RTM_and_SP1_Activation.zip.html
October 4th, 2008 13:05
thankyou soo much this worked
thumbs up dude (y)