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 9th, 2009 18:53
Thank you verry much… it’s working
October 9th, 2009 10:40
Just an Update on my Previous Post…It worked for a Four Days Only. Today When I tried to open the Excel,”New Workbook” It would not let me write anything on it. It is opening in read only Mode for some reason.( Tried deleting opa12.dat with no luck)
I am now reinstalling It. Kindly Note I reverted the changes in Proof.XML to uninstall it.
Regards
October 8th, 2009 18:10
thanks very very much you are great man. God bless you. you make my day. i m Doctor i study medicine books and notes and i did this thing and it worked for me. bro you did it. God bless you. and God will. now helped humanity. being a Doctor i pray for you
October 8th, 2009 02:13
To all of you saying this doesn’t work: You are all idiots.
October 7th, 2009 12:51
worked like a charm TY
October 7th, 2009 10:10
It worked like a Charm… 100/100
Thanks and Blessings
October 6th, 2009 15:55
it workz for me..hehehe
October 6th, 2009 00:51
THANK YOU “doesnt last forever”! I followed the steps you recommended, and succesfully uninstalled word.
One point I would like to add is that the activation code I purchased would NOT work with it until I uninstalled/reinstalled it it – but now all is fine (if at a cost)!
October 4th, 2009 11:26
i was going to leave you all in the dark BUT!!
you can make it so it is 100% normal again
1. follow the same path that you did to the XML document…. replace it with the original one which ISNT screwed up:
2. go to C:/programdata/microsoft/OFFICE/DATA/
then delete both files
3. NOW microsoft (the multi million dollar national company you thought u could fool)NOW your computer will relize you have been screwing around and it will RE-CONFIGURE
4. you should be prompted again, now enter you 60 day trial code or phurcased code or a code off a code gen
5. it is now the way it originally was now u CAN unistall it
October 4th, 2009 11:15
i meant you CANNOT* unistall it or buy oit sorry… no can
October 4th, 2009 11:12
hey, i used this ages ago from a differnt place with similiar steps…. it doesnt last for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when it comes to an end…. you can unistall it or buy it…. it will be stuck on you computer forever NO WORKING!!!!!!
but u can always manually unistall it after this ‘hack’ fails
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/03/how-to-manually-uninstall-microsoft-office-2007-system-suite/
October 3rd, 2009 22:08
tried it. Worked for two months, then it suddenly wont edit documents, only open them….. whats wrong????
October 3rd, 2009 21:16
awesome….great..
tnx..it worked for me!!
October 2nd, 2009 20:53
Hey just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! Everything it’s clear and works perfectly and I really needed the 2007 version fully working for my studies but since I left Europe and went to South Africa I couldn’t purchase one!
(Honestly who would purchase a microsoft product aniway xp ) Thank you !!!
October 2nd, 2009 03:52
2 thumbs up worked like a charm. SO EASY TOO!
October 1st, 2009 12:49
sometimes, steps 4,5 which has “neverInstalled” doesnt work because it says you cant overwrite it. for this, you should save the “neverinsttaled” file to the desktop, then go to the XML file and switch them. You will need administrative access
October 1st, 2009 01:28
here is an automated code
one click install second click uninstall
SO if u did this guide and u want 2 uninstall it, use my patch here:
run it in first time, it’s make backup
&&& if he find that ur file alardy patched, it make ‘original file’ without change and save it as backup …. than run my program again ….
Made by ampy_dumpy
it’s took me 8-9 hour’s to make it work ….
/// save this code as ‘XXX.cmd’ file ///
@echo off & cls & title Proof_hack_test_file
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0 >nul & cls
if errorlevel 1 echo. & echo * Office 2007 not installe’d on ur ’system’ & exit /b
cls & echo. & call :clean_var
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg” (
for /f “tokens=*” %%a in (’dir /a /b “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\proof*” ^| find /i “Proof.”‘) do (
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%%a\proof.tmp” del /q /f /a “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%%a\proof.xml”
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%%a\proof.tmp” ren “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%%a\proof.tmp” *.xml
)
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg” reg import “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg”
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg” del /q /f /a “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg”
cls & echo. & echo —+ Uninstall process done, press any key 2 close +— & pause>nul & call :clean_var & exit /b
)
echo. & echo 2 remove this patch, run “%~n0″ again, based on this article: & echo ‘http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/21/hack-to-activate & echo -microsoft-office-2007-evaluation-trial-version/’ & ping -n 4 127.0.0.1>nul & cls
if not exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg” reg export “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration” “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\reg_bacup.reg”
cls & echo. & call :patch_reg
for /f “tokens=*” %%a in (’dir /a /b “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\proof*” ^| find /i “Proof.”‘) do if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%%a\proof.xml” call :patch_files %%a
echo. & echo —+ process done, press any key 2 close +— & pause>nul & cls & echo.
call :clean_var & exit /b
:clean_var
if exist proof.tmp del /q /f /a proof.tmp
set i=0
set line=
set proof_file=
set write=
set yami=
goto :eof
:patch_reg
for /f “tokens=*” %%z in (’reg query “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration” ^| find “901″‘) do echo * clean key: “%%z\DigitalProductID” & reg delete “%%z” /v DigitalProductID /f & echo. & echo * clean key: “%%z\ProductID” & reg delete “%%z” /v ProductID /f & echo.
for /f “tokens=*” %%z in (’reg query “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration” ^| find “911″‘) do echo * clean key: “%%z\DigitalProductID” & reg delete “%%z” /v DigitalProductID /f & echo. & echo * clean key: “%%z\ProductID” & reg delete “%%z” /v ProductID /f & echo.
goto :eof
:patch_files
set proof_file=%1
if exist “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%proof_file%\proof.tmp” echo * ‘%proof_file%’ Alardy patched & echo. & call :clean_var & goto :eof
copy /y “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%proof_file%\proof.xml” .\proof.tmp >nul
for /f “tokens=*” %%p in (proof.tmp) do call :get_line “%%p”
echo * patch %proof_file% file & echo.
set i=0
set write=
set yami=
for /f “tokens=*” %%p in (proof.tmp) do (
call :write
if not defined write echo %%p>>proof.xml
if defined write (
set yami=
echo “%%p” | find /i “NeverInstalled” >nul
if not errorlevel 1 set yami=defined
if defined yami echo ^>>proof.xml
if not defined yami echo ^>>proof.xml
)
)
if defined yami (
move proof.xml “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%proof_file%\proof.tmp” >nul
)
if not defined yami (
ren “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%proof_file%\proof.xml” *.tmp >nul
move proof.xml “%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\%proof_file%\” >nul
)
call :clean_var & goto :eof
:get_line
set /a i=%i%+1
echo %1 | find “SetupXmlFiles” >nul
if not errorlevel 1 set /a line=%i%+1
goto :eof
:write
set /a i=%i%+1
set write=
if “%line%”==”%i%” set write=defined
goto :eof
October 1st, 2009 00:56
It doesn`t work and now I can`t uninstall it from my computer, thx
October 1st, 2009 00:25
It didn’t work for me…
September 28th, 2009 20:22
Thanks a lot!!!!
September 25th, 2009 22:14
btw thanks soo much,,
September 25th, 2009 22:13
wohohohoh’
its great
September 25th, 2009 18:28
it worked for me!
Thanks!!
September 25th, 2009 02:47
Yeah it makes it where you don’t have to put in the product code, but it also makes it where you can’t change a single thing about your document. This is ridiculous. I’m just gonna use openoffice.
September 24th, 2009 05:43
I rather use freeware than office… I am going to try open office… it’s a 150 mb download, but I’ll try it!