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
...
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.

Activate by telephone.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




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
message ...
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.

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
...
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.

Hi Bullwinkle,

It's not that simple at all, since Office -- like most Windows
programs -- depends on a large number of entries in the registry that
can't be saved through a reformat of the OS drive. It doesn't matter
whether Office is installed on the OS drive or another drive; after a
reformat and reinstallation of Windows, you're going to have to
reinstall Office.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:29:32 -0500, "Bullwinkle. J. Moose"
wrote:

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.

"Bullwinkle. J. Moose" wrote in message
...
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.

Not entirely true, since when you format the OS drive you'll also lose the
registry, which will contain most of the application settings.

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.

Though even if you do that, you'll still need to reinstall the apps to
recreate the registry values.

HTH
-pk

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