Comments on: Reset or Change Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 Product Key

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:12:58 +0000

yaaaaaaay!!!
finally!!

u r da man !!

By: wub

wub — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:09:10 +0000

@ Alma-it was easy to delete the pa.dat file, put a new.txt file in the same folder and then rename it to pa.dat.

When I opened the program again it took the same 60-day trial password.

Do not choose the option to ‘revert to the free version and downgrade your data’ as your files that were shared in multi-user environments would no longer be accessible outside of this one machine.

You know guys it’s a pretty cheap buy. I did this because I bought the program and it’s in the mail but my trial expired this weekend and I need to get to my data. I run this on WHS with a tie into the BCM database.

The good news is that whatever license you own, Microsoft is fighting for market share and wants you to use their product. Your 2007 or 2008 Accounting License allows you a free upgrade to Version 2009. If you own any qualifying product the Upgrade Version is only $35 through trusted vendors. That’s quite a good deal for a multi-user accounting program that ties in with BCM/Office…

I do feel right getting my mileage out of the trial version but I don’t mind buying one license for the WHS, plus one license for a Desktop/Notebook pair. No way it’s worth $200 but for $35 I don’t mind.

By: john

john — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:32:54 +0000

or if you just go to the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office Accounting\3.0\ go to pa.dat file and simply select and delete all info and save your account 2008 will automatically reset to 25 uses, you could just keep doing this.

By: Yomisma

Yomisma — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:34:32 +0000

alguien me puede ayudar para poder
encon trar la clave para microsoft 2007
por que se me ha bloqueado..

GRACIASS!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:23:28 +0000

To create an empty ‘pa.dat’ file explore to the folder mentioned, right click and select New -> Text document.

Then rename the text document to ‘pa.dat’.

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By: Alma

Alma — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:06:44 +0000

Pls tell me how to create an empty “pa.bat” File???? Reinstalling is a pain in the butt

By: Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:51:55 +0000

To avoid reinstalling Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 one could create empty “pa.dat” after deleting the original file. On subsequent run, the activation and registration wizard will run.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:14:34 +0000

Good way of solving this problem. Thanks for these comments.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:25:56 +0000

With the old product key used for activating, the results are always rejected and forced to quite due to invalid or expired key, rendering users unable to use the Office Accounting 2008, and even the free Express edition. As the same configuration is used for both OA 2008 Professional