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lifted from http://www.petri.co.il/change_office_xp_cdkey.htm

You can do it by editing the Registry. Apply this procedure:

1. Locate your valid product CD Key, which is located on the back of the original CD case.
2. On the Start menu, click Run.
3. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
4. In Registry Editor, find the following subkey:

   HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Registration

   Click the plus sign (+) next to this folder. If you see only one subkey in this folder that has a 32-character {GUID} (globally unique identifier), select that subkey and go to step 5.

   If you see more than one subkey that has a 32-character {GUID}, select each one until you find the one whose DisplayName value (in the right pane) matches your version of Office.

5. For the selected {GUID} subkey, select the ProductID string value in the right pane.
6. On the Edit menu, click Rename.
7. Type

   OldProductID

   and then press ENTER.

8. On the Registry menu, click Exit.


Reader note: Reader Mike Fairburn wrote:

“Great work and a great service to the Internet community. I looked at your page and tried the fix you suggest. I have, however, discovered that you need to do more than what you suggest. What you need to do is delete the digital ID above the Product ID. This forces the next Office XP app to open to request a valid key.”

Thanks. You guys should check his advice and see if it’s indeed required.

9. Start any Office program.
10. When the Microsoft Office XP User Information dialog box appears, type your valid product CD Key (located on the back of the CD case). Follow the instructions on your screen.

Reader note: Greg Guerrero from the USA wrote:

“If you open MS Word and it does not ask you for a CD Key, go to step 11.”

Return to step 4, select the Registration folder.

11. Right click Registration folder and select rename.
12. Type OldRegistration and press enter.
13. Follow steps 8 – 10.

Reader note: Crazy Dave from the USA wrote:

“In regards to your article “How can I change the CD Key of my Office XP installation?” a final step in some cases (as it was in mine) is to go to the HELP menue in the MSoXP application that you open, and select the “about…” option.”

Thanks.

I wrote this to Spamnet today. I still think their service is excellent. It could just be a little better.

I get about 3 false positives per week, mostly from mass mailers from companies I want to receive mail from (IE. Coldwater Creek, Pogo.com, Avantgo, NikonNet). I suspect that these false positives come from other Spamnet members that want to cancel their subscription to these mailers but not wanting to bother with unsubscribing.

Please make it more clear to Spamnet users that the “Block” button should only be used for spam and not to unsubscribe from legitimate mailers. Your tutorials don’t express this clearly enough.

Thank you,
Lee Sonko

Someone asked me for my Versacounter sourcecode. (See Journal 10-23-03). Here are my notes from vcounter.pl:

# VersaCounter (version 1.0a) 12-1-03
# Version 1.0 by Michael Chavel. Version 1.0a modifications by Lee Sonko
# 1.0a is a simple port that uses .png files instead of .gif files.
# Recent versions (after 2001?) of the Perl GD module don’t support .gif files
# due to patent issues with Unisys. 1.0a gets around that issue by swapping .gifs
# for .png files.

And here is the new (version 1.0a) code.

In case you don’t have it, here is the original (version 1.0) Vesacounter code from Chavel’s website.

I think Versacounter is a terrific website counter program. I like it primarily because it doesn’t need server side includes, it’s customizable on a per-counter basis, it’s a snap to make new counters, and the code on the web page is very easy to read. Here’s an example from this Journal page:


<img src="http://lee.org/scgi-bin/vcounter.pl?&page=journal_index_hits&block=1" alt="[hit meter]">
hits from <a href="http://lee.org/counter.html"></a>
<img src="http://lee.org/scgi-bin/vcounter.pl?&page=journal_index_visits&block=14400"
alt="[visit meter]"> visits to my journal homepage since October 23rd, 2003.
<a href="http://lee.org/counter.html"><a>


That code makes 2 graphical counters, reading “nnn hits from nnn visits to my journal homepage…” I count ‘visits’ as a bunch of requests from the same IP address in 14,400 seconds…. 4 hours. Simple.