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Vic wrote:
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
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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.