Office 2010 Professional Windows Activation Proble

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My laptop computer died just lately. I eliminated the laborious drive and converted it right into a virtual machine using VMware Converter. I verified the virtual drives by mounting them as disks working with VMware’s Disk Mount Utility. Then I ran the VM in Player and hit the Windows Activation screen. This is expected because the hardware has changed radically from a Sony laptop computer to a virtual device. Unfortunately,Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, my previous XP license key did not work. I called Microsoft’s Activation support as directed by the wizard. The computer said I had an invalid key, so I talked to a customer service rep who also told me I had an invalid key. The rep,Office 2010 Key, of course, is a moron who couldn’t explain why this might be the case. It turns out an OEM license (pre-installed OS) is only licensed for that machine and cannot be transferred to another machine. However,Office 2010 Professional, activation still failed even if I type in a legitimate retail key for XP. Now I was stuck.
I need to change the key, but the activation wizard won’t let me use the computer to fix it. One of the screens on the wizard has a link to the Windows Activation web site. Click that to get a web browser. Go to Google and search for Windows Product Key Update Tool. Download and run it. Enter your legitimate retail Windows XP key and restart the computer. Everything should work now. I had to uninstall all the laptop computer drivers and install VMware tools to get good performance. It’s working great now. The moral of the story is that Windows Activation sucks,Office 2007 Product Key, the license for the OEM version of XP is unfair (can’t transfer to new computer), and customer reps are useless meat puppets. This entry was posted on November 4, 2008 at 9:36 am and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response,Office Professional 2010, or trackback from your own site.