Office 2007 trial expired immediately due to prior Office 2003

[rschu]

I attempted to install a trial version of Office 2007 Pro, and the activation
wizard said "Your trial period expired on December 31, 2002". This PC is
Windows XP machine, new in about year 2005, where the machine already had an
expired trial version of Office 2003 installed. I was using the expired
Office 2003 trial as a file viewer and never activated the 60-day trial
period for it. When installing the Office 2007 Pro trial, I selected the
option to remove the older version of Office, which worked successfully. Now
when I start any Office app, the activation wizard says that my trial is
expired. How do I activate a 60-day trial for Office 2007 in this situation?
I already tried to clean the 2003 install using MicrosoftFixit50302.

 

[Robert Ozone]

I installed a trial version of Office 2007 Pro, on a clean XP Pro system and
a clean Windows 7 Pro system and get the same result the activation
wizard said "Your trial period expired on December 31, 2002" same day I
installed it.

Need this fixed ASAP working on getting a license for 20+ users which is not
put together yet.... HELP!!!!!

 

[KC]

I installed a trial version of Office 2007 Pro, on a clean XP Pro system and
a clean Windows 7 Pro system and get the same result the activation
wizard said "Your trial period expired on December 31, 2002" same day I
installed it.

Need this fixed ASAP working on getting a license for 20+ users which is not
put together yet.... HELP!!!!!

I am having same issue, although I am installing on a new computer with
Windows7 with Office 2007 trial version uninstalled before uploading office
pro 2007. Get the 2002 expiration date and only a read only. All worked
before on my Vista machine until the motherboard died.
Anyone have a work around?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Apparently you did not uninstall the Office 2007 Trial and the Activation Assistant
completely. When you do the latter then your Retail Office 2007 pro will install

 

[KC]

Apparently you did not uninstall the Office 2007 Trial and the Activation Assistant
completely. When you do the latter then your Retail Office 2007 pro will install

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I know I uninstalled EVERYTHING!! I now cannot even download the trial as it
says I have downloaded my alotted amount. I have never gotten this to work
and only need it for about 30 more days. I even paid for a 180 day trial and
it won't work either!!
Someone, please help!!

 

[Peter Foldes]

No you did not uninstall everything needed to be uninstalled. Is the Activation
Assistant uninstalled

 

[KC]

Yes, activation assistant and office 2007 all were uninstalled, even
uninstalled the reinstall trial that was loaded at purchase.
Was I missing anything else? I could not find anything else lingering. Even
cleared out the recycle bin which held the download trial 2007. Now I cannot
download it as microsoft said I downloaded it too much.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Then spend a little and purchase it or download Open Office

 

[KC]

It costs over $400 so that is not possible and I need microsoft office pro
2007 for the class..just for 30 more days. What a pain!!

 

[Peter Foldes]

Did you try to download Open Office or tried to download Office Pro 2010 Beta which
is good for another few months

 

[KC]

No because I have to use 2007 pro version.
I also see that many tutorials to remove all traces of trial software only
lists XP and server, sometimes Vista. Anyone have a way for Windows7??

 

[LD55ZRA]

No because I have to use 2007 pro version.
I also see that many tutorials to remove all traces of trial software only
lists XP and server, sometimes Vista. Anyone have a way for Windows7??

Have you got access to a Windows XP machine because it seems the trials
don't work on Windows 7 but I can't confirm this yet because I don't
have any Win7 test machines to play with. I have got only one machine
with Win7 given to me to do specialist work for my UNI and I can't mess
around with it.

With WinXP I can give you clear instructions on how to delete the
relevant registry keys so that your Office 2007 will run without any
time limitations.

hth

 

[Steve_in_cefc]

Have you got access to a Windows XP machine because it seems the trials
don't work on Windows 7 but I can't confirm this yet because I don't
have any Win7 test machines to play with. I have got only one machine
with Win7 given to me to do specialist work for my UNI and I can't mess
around with it.

With WinXP I can give you clear instructions on how to delete the
relevant registry keys so that your Office 2007 will run without any
time limitations.

hth

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I am having the same problem, also on W7. I have uninstalled the activation
wizard and also followed steps as recommended by MS to manually uninstall
Office 2007 (KB928218).

Having gone through all of that and reinstalling and reactivating the
product it still only activates to 31 December 2002. I can't believe that MS
are unaware of this problem.

 

[LD55ZRA]

I am sure Microsoft is aware of the problem but if you have
noticed recently, Microsoft has started pulling down trial
versions of Office 2007 software so that people start getting used
to its next version of Office called Office 2010 (Beta). The link
for its download is here:

<http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx>

Have you read these instructions to install your trial version:

<http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/setupinfo.aspx?culture=en-US>

hth

I am having the same problem, also on W7. I have uninstalled the activation
wizard and also followed steps as recommended by MS to manually uninstall
Office 2007 (KB928218).

Having gone through all of that and reinstalling and reactivating the
product it still only activates to 31 December 2002. I can't believe that MS
are unaware of this problem.

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[Steve_in_cefc]

Yes, these are the same instructions I received directly from MS on email
support. My gripe is that in none of the support I have received from MS has
there been any acknowledgement that there is a problem. The implication is
always that by following another set of instructions, or the same set of
instructions more precisely, the problem will be resolved.

It would be a better use of my and MS's time if someone could "officially"
(i.e. in a response to a support request) tell me that there is a problem
which currently cannot be resolved.

 

[Peter Foldes]

What you are describing is left over's from a Trial or some Updates that you have
not removed and which you thought you did.