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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December 17th, 2007 01:02
I did the hack the first time, it worked… for about 5 days. Then I re-installed the trial, using the EXACT same steps, and it will not work anymore. Any fixes?
If not, thanks for nothing.
December 15th, 2007 07:17
use OPEN OFFICE you damn idiot. fucking retarded american corporations……
December 15th, 2007 06:20
i did the hack and it worked … but now it stopped?! and its back to where i started?! any clue on how to fix??
December 14th, 2007 11:04
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 12th, 2007 14:16
Wow This worked like a charm. lol I fricken love it!
Does anyone KNOW IF…
You can do the same sort of thing for Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Edition?
If ya do email me. joejoeb36@yahoo.com
December 12th, 2007 07:36
did everything but when i try to save the proof.xml file it says cannot create “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\Proof.xml file. Make sure the path and file name are correct.” What am i Doing wrong
December 10th, 2007 08:43
Fantastic!
Thanks
December 9th, 2007 22:36
Works like a charm, thank you!
December 9th, 2007 15:01
This really works, but i have a question, when i open word or any office program it says “The setup controler has encounteres a problem during install.Please review the log files for further information on the error.”
There isn’t any problem really, I’m just wondering why it appaears…..
December 5th, 2007 18:58
This worked very good. If it freezes it is because you did not turn off updates. Just follow the instructions
December 2nd, 2007 16:41
Oh and DONT update anything. If you update Office or Windows you will lose Office.
One idiot got the hack to work then did an update. Then whined on here that ‘the hack doesnt work’.
December 2nd, 2007 16:38
Read comment 58.
You must remove EVERYTHING then do an install.
I find it unpleasant for people to do half a job then say ‘this hack doesnt work’. I just installed Vista on and lost everything to I had to do another install of Office Professional 2007. Hoping that I could get away with using the key that I had. It did not work so I used the hack properly and yes now I have a working version.
December 2nd, 2007 15:27
ya this doesnt work but for a little while. I saw that someone tried to uninstall but had problems.
to uninstall got the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\
and delete proof.xml file or drag it out of the folder and reinstall the trial. then you will be able to uninstall office 2007 trial. it seems to know that you changed the file even if you change it back so you get the cant remove error or cant install error. If you get proof.xml out of that folder it will install fine so that you can remove it.(you have to re-install before you can remove or you will get a diff error.)
November 26th, 2007 07:27
This shit doesn’t work
November 21st, 2007 02:34
thanx yaar, it works like anything
November 8th, 2007 06:20
Not sure if i did anything wrong (i’m sure i didn’t) but all it did was stop the box asking me to enter a product key but word was still blocked.
November 6th, 2007 01:39
Okay i did this a while back and after a few days it just blanked out again is there any way of stopping this i want it forever lol! :] or mabye we should all just get the discount off the student version for like £30
November 5th, 2007 07:14
when using the windows installer clean up to remove all office files is it wise to select everything from the list? thanks again
November 5th, 2007 06:43
oh no worries
i managed to change it back to AlwaysInstalled
thanks
November 4th, 2007 00:35
your so cool thx very much….if i was a girl i would suck your ballz all night long
November 2nd, 2007 09:41
That was great while it lasted .. however I did something like remove more reg keys later (with CCleaner), removed the RR files that were possibly part of the suite, or installed the ‘genuine Windows validation tool’ from Windows Update that caused the trial to expire again. If someone knows a way to get it back plz let me know.
November 2nd, 2007 00:25
Thanks but im not the owner of the family laptop its on vista. Can you just post an actual activation key for Word 2007?
November 1st, 2007 16:34
Maria:
Just uninstall the trial completely and download a torrent for MS Office 2007 with keygens / serials / cracks packaged.. much more sensible.. this seems for only temporary use
November 1st, 2007 16:32
thanks so much!!! exactly what i was looking for. i needed this fora really important assignment to complete for school the next day. thanks so much!
October 30th, 2007 01:22
Guys, this hack doesn’t work! Well, it does, but after you use it 25 time, it locks! I tried to uninstall it by changing it to AlwaysInstalled, then I tried to uninstall it but it won’t! Can someone please help me?