I suggest that the next time you consider reformatting your hard drive, you
set up at least an additional logical drive and place your programs there.
Then when you reformat and reinstall the os your programs are not affected.
Of course it's not that simple you need to save your system and system 32
directories from windows so you can copy back the library files that the
program installations put there.

Good luck.

"Vic" wrote in message
...
I just reformated my PC and after installing Office 2003 it can not be
activated again over the Internet.

Is there a solution for that?

Thanks,

Vic.

"D.Currie" wrote:


"Guy Worthington" wrote in message
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Guy Worthington writes:

sddrlj writes:

hi sherry here i have a pavilion a250e i am runing win. xp i have a
virus that is interfering with my op sytem i got it right after
i installed office.

Could you give us some more details such as: If at all possible,
the name of the virus or if you don't know the name of the virus,
can you describe what the virus is doing. For instance, some
viruses won't let you start windows at all, some viruses stop
your computer every time you try to use Microsoft office, and
some viruses just slow your computer down.

Also can you tell us if you are running any anti-viral software.

PS. I've cross-posted this to another newsgroup, which is more
specific to the Windows-XP operating system. I've also added
a summary line, because I love summary lines.

I'll try that cross-posting again


To answer your subject line, you can't. Formatting means that you erase
everything on the computer, including all of your programs, files,
settings,
mail, etc. So by definition, you can't format and still keep an
application
on the drive (not to mention that Windows would also be gone, so there
would
be nowhere for office to be running.) But if you have Office, you
installed
it from somewhere, so you should be able to install it again after the
format.

After formatting, you would have to reinstall Windows, all the drivers
for
your hardware, all of your programs, and then you could restore any data
you'd backed up. Somewhere before restoring data and connecting to the
Internet, you should be installing your antivirus software and updating
it,
so that you don't re-acquire whatever virus it is you have now.

Are you prepared to reinstall everything on your computer? Do you have
all
the CDs, license keys, drivers, etc., and do you know computers well
enough
to attempt this?

And are you sure that formatting is the answer? It will get rid of a
virus,
but it's probably overkill. It may be wiser to just get rid of the virus,
if
you're sure that's the problem.