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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.

I’ve been using Spenix.com for my ISP for several weeks now and I’m very happy with them. Their tech support is very good, price is excellent, up-time is very good, services are just great (I got my SSH command prompt :-) )

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You know that there are unresolved issues in your life when…

You buy one of these:

I was down a gallon of antifreeze. The coolant system likely had a vaporlock condition. Still… where did that gallon of antifreeze go?!? Especially since I had an oil change at the dealer just a month ago. They are supposed to check for that kind of stuff.

I’ve had my 1998 Chrysler Sebring for 5 years, 1 1/2 months. I know this partially because I got the car on my birthday. The other reason is that I purchased a 5 year extended warranty on the car for about $1,400. Nothing ever went bad on the car in all that time. . . . . . until tonight, 1 1/2 months after the warranty and service plan expires.

I swear, they have a little timer in them. That’s why you can’t buy the extended warrantee after the car leaves the showroom; they have to set the timer before you get it.

I was driving along and noticed that all of a sudden the heat wasn’t heating. I looked down and noticed that the temperature gauge was high and rising so I pulled over at a rest stop. After waiting 30 minutes and walking to the Delaware river to fill my water bottle for the radiator, I got back in the car and took off. I made it just 1 mile before it was topping the red zone again. I realized I wasn’t going to limp home. I pulled off at Rt 80 Exit 4 (20 miles from home) into a truck stop, called a friend to pick me up (thanks Jack), called a nearby mechanic and waited to be picked up at McDonald’s.

If I learned one thing from this whole experience it’s that I don’t much like McDonald’s any more. Too filling, fatty and flavorless. Two hours later, I still feel bloated even though I didn’t finish my fries or shake.

Let’s hope I get out of this without too much expenditure…

This is part of a letter I wrote to an acquaintance a few months ago

>As for my MST3K stuff, what shows are you missing from your collection?

I never tried collecting MST3K shows. But there is always one sitting on Tivo ready for me to spend two hours on! I went kooky taping Babylon 5 and that was enough for me. So now I’ve got some 116 hours or so of B5 on SVHS and I don’t know what to do with it. It was that experience that convinced me just a few years ago that I should watch/experience/read stuff and then let them go. I used to keep most everything I thought was important. But then I just sold or gave most of it away… and surprise, I didn’t explode or wither away! Of course, I still seem to have too much “stuff”, it’s ongoing… but at least it’s now eminently manageable.

For the past few months I’ve been tivoing The Screen Savers and Call For Help on TechTV. These shows are both excellent if you’re a computer nerd or plan to be one, you’ll know what we mean! I find it important to Tivo them because it’s an hour long and, although I love Leo, watching him for an hour straight gives me the twitchies.. No, not really, just just that sometimes they talk about stuff I already know and I just skip past that segment. But they are real hackers with real good advice for geeks and non-geeks alike. And they have cute AND smart supporting members too. How many times have I had that dream where Cat Swartz is configuring my router…. ahhhhh. :-)

PPG and I were in the city this weekend. On our way out of the city at 5pm, we got stuck in really bad traffic. On our way to the Holland Tunnel, we’d often only advance a single car-length at each change of the light. It was a little aggravating. We had been sitting in traffic for 45 minutes when I started playing with the seat. I cranked my seat back into a recline to relax. PPG was driving.

Lee: Lean your seat back. It’s not like we’re going anywhere.
PPG: No, I can’t. I’m driving.
Lee: Well put the car in Park.
PPG: No.
Lee: OK, well at least take your hands off the wheel.
[she does]
Lee: Now, wave them in the air like this. [Lee flaps his hands around furiously in front of him]
[she starts waving her hands around in front of her, smiling at the distraction]
Lee: You’re driving like a crazy person! Now put the car in Park!

:-))