You must be slipping. Why didn't you tell him about the wonders of Ubuntu?


"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote in message
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> Steve Levine wrote:
>> I recently purchased a NEW multimedia Gateway Vista model GM5407E. It
>> came with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Trial version. I have
>> purchased, installed and registered Microsoft Office PROFESSIONAL 2007,
>> that cost me $$$. It works well. However, when I go to download
>> templates for my use, Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage reports that my
>> PC has a copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 that is not
>> valid. (BTW, MS Office 2003 has never been installed on this PC.)
>> Although I have uninstalled Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, it
>> still shows as an installed program in my Control Panel, although none of
>> its components show in START\Programs any longer. Only the Microsoft
>> Office PROFESSIONAL 2007 programs are in START/Programs. When I try to
>> UNINSTALL Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 from the Control Panel,
>> I get a message that the installation files are corrupted and that I need
>> to reinstall from the original media source. I do not have the original
>> media source for the trial software, (and I don't want to reinstall it
>> either.) I just want to DOWNLOAD the templates that I need!
>>
>> I tried a fix posted by Carey Frisch [MVP], but it did not help the
>> situation:
>>
>> "1. Click Start, click Run, type: %AllUsersprofile%\Application
>> Data\Microsoft\Office\Data
>> and then click OK. 2. Right-click the Opa12.dat file, and then click
>> Delete. Important: Do not delete the opa12.bak file. 3. Close the folder.
>> 4. Start a 2007 Office program to start the 2007 Office Activation
>> Wizard."
>>
>> The files that remain showing in %AllUsersprofile%\Application
>> Data\Microsoft\Office\Data are 89446.bpc, opa11.dat, OPA12.BAK and
>> opa12.dat
>>
>> Also, Uniblue's RegistryBooster reports no registry errors. However, I
>> suspect that I may need to delete certain Registry entries. PLEASE
>> HELP! -Steve
>>
>
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> Use the Clean Up feature first.
>
> Alias