Outlook 2003 no longer a legal install!? It is!!!

[Steve Campbell]

A friend of mine gave my daughter his old computer some months back. It has
Outlook 2003 on it - I installed 2007 on it just after she acquired it, which
replaced Word etc but left Outlook, Access etc in the 2003 version. The PC
runs XP Home.
It has run perfectly ever since, until a day or so ago. Now suddenly a
message appears when she launches Outlook saying it's not a valid copy. It
was most definitely a proper job legal copy.

My friend's new computer has 2007 on it and the 2003 installation on the XP
machine hasn't been moved from its original machine.

I used System Restore and this worked for about an hour and I even changed
updating to 'notify only' in case it was a screwed up version of the
validation tool being downloaded automatically to the machine.

I've heard this can be a problem but how do I fix it?

Thanks for any help.

Steve

 

[N. Miller]

Thanks for any help.

No answer after forty-two minutes, so you repost the exact same question?
This is a peer-to-peer self-help group, not an official Microsoft
communication channel. Give your peers some time to react.

BTW, I've already provide my take on the issue as a followup to your later
post.

 

[Steve Campbell]

Ah but the problem was that when I clicked the first time I got a 'service
not running ' message, so a wee while later I tried again. What I didn't
realise was that it posted the first time anyway. Oh well, off to find the
reply. Thanks anyway.

Steve