Any way to change the "Company Name" in my license?

[Jerry Krinock]

Hi,

I just installed Office 2004, which I bought with my own money, but when any
of the programs launches it has my employer's name, because it got it from
my Address Book when I installed it.

Is there any way to change my "Company Name" in the license? I suppose I
could do it if I trashed the Microsoft Office folder and reinstalled from
the CD, but is there an easier way?

Jerry Krinock

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Hi,

I just installed Office 2004, which I bought with my own money, but when any
of the programs launches it has my employer's name, because it got it from
my Address Book when I installed it.

Is there any way to change my "Company Name" in the license? I suppose I
could do it if I trashed the Microsoft Office folder and reinstalled from
the CD, but is there an easier way?

Check out

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

 

[phe at mac]

I tried your suggestion, but Office is still holding on to my product key,
somewhere. I'd installed my own personal copy of Office on my work
machine, until we got our site-licensed software.
Now that we've got our licensed software, I want to use the communal
license for my work machine, and use my personal license at home.
Any ideas?

 

[Jerry Krinock]

Check out

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

JE, You set me on the right track, but I'm in worse shape than I
thought.

Your first method is, of course, the brute-force reinstallation which
I want to avoid. All my comments are regarding your second method.

First of all, for Office 2004 the preference file is Office Settings
(11), not Office Settings (10).

But the method does not work for an upgrade installation if you have
trashed the previous version, because after it asks you for your CD
key again, it then wants to see a previous version to upgrade.
ARGHHHH!!!!

So, it looks like I'm going to have to reinstall the previous version
in order to get this done, unless someone can tell me where that
"Company name" is stored. I hope it is not in "Office Settings (11)",
because that file has a resource fork only, and contains several
'CDrz' resources of several hundred bytes each, all coded jibberish.

Thanks,

Jerry

 

[Jerry Krinock]

Since no one came up with a better idea, I went ahead and solved the
problem by doing the following:

1. Installed Microsoft Office v.x
2. Quit all Microsoft applications.
3. Open terminal, type

ps -alx | grep Microsoft

4. Kill Microsoft daemons which are shown.

5. Renamed the two files:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (11)
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/OfficePID

by appending the OLD to their names (this is safer than trashing and
emptying trash).

6. Launching Word 2004
7. Entering desired licensee information.
8. Delete the folder /Applications/Microsoft Office v.X
9. Delete the files which I had renamed:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (11)OLD
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Office/OfficePIDOLD

Now the only remaining problem is that I have two Office Notifications
daemons in my account's Startup Items. They both look the same, and I
don't know which one is the new 2004 and which one is the old v.x.
Oh, well. I hope that the old one will not work since it has been
trashed. We'll see....

Jerry

 

[Walt Basil]

The way I am understanding it, you actually bought an upgrade version of
Office 2004, and applied it to a version of Office that was licensed to your
company. Could this be why his company information was kept during the
installation?

Anyone know the legality of this method if it is indeed what he did?

You said in an earlier post:

On 6/10/04 11:12, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Jerry Krinock"

But the method does not work for an upgrade installation if you have
trashed the previous version, because after it asks you for your CD
key again, it then wants to see a previous version to upgrade.
ARGHHHH!!!!

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[JE McGimpsey]

Anyone know the legality of this method if it is indeed what he did?

There's no legal issue here. The license accompanies the media and the
owner (which may include a subsequent owner). The owner can enter any
information s/he wants for name and company, and can change it at will.
The owner can uninstall and reinstall as often as desired, changing
names/companies willy nilly. I don't recall the 2004 license, but the
v.X license allowed 1 transfer to a new owner per license.

I installed a full version, but in previous upgrades you didn't have to
have the previous version installed - just had to have the CD available.
Is that not the case with 2004?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Now the only remaining problem is that I have two Office Notifications
daemons in my account's Startup Items. They both look the same, and I
don't know which one is the new 2004 and which one is the old v.x.
Oh, well. I hope that the old one will not work since it has been
trashed. We'll see....

Remove both of them. As soon as you launch Entourage 2004 next the correct
daemon will be launched again.

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[Jerry Krinock]

Remove both of them. As soon as you launch Entourage 2004 next the correct

daemon will be launched again.

Thanks, Paul. I'll do that.

By the way, what I did is legal since I have bought and paid for the
original floppy disks and all subsesquent upgrades out of my own
pocket. It's just that, during installation, Office found the name of
the company which I currently happen to work for in Address Book, and
put it in my license, and that made me mad to have to look at it with
each launch.

Jerry