product registration

[Leo Szlamkowicz]

I bought XP Office about a year ago, and sometime after
that started storing my CD's in a CD wallet and must have
discarded my product registration # by accident. My
laptop just recently crashed and I had to get a new one
and want to install Office on it, but can't because I
don't have the reg#. I would assume that Microsoft must
have a record of when I first registered it, but I have
not found any resource for finding this. I didn't want
to have to pay for tech support just to find out about
this. Does anyone have a clue about how I can find this
out? Thanks for your help. (e-mail address removed)

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can contact MS for a replacement key:

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/phone.asp?sd=gn

If it's an OEM copy (provided with the PC) you
may need to contact that PC supplier for the key.

Hope this helps.



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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Having searched the archives,
Leo Szlamkowicz <[email protected]> typed:
| I bought XP Office about a year ago, and sometime after
| that started storing my CD's in a CD wallet and must have
| discarded my product registration # by accident. My
| laptop just recently crashed and I had to get a new one
| and want to install Office on it, but can't because I
| don't have the reg#. I would assume that Microsoft must
| have a record of when I first registered it, but I have
| not found any resource for finding this. I didn't want
| to have to pay for tech support just to find out about
| this. Does anyone have a clue about how I can find this
| out? Thanks for your help. (e-mail address removed)

 

[Leo Szlamkowicz]

Milly,

Thanks SO much for the information and the URL,

Leo

 

[Leo Szlamkowicz]

Hi Milly,

I tried this URL, but it only led me through the same
process as before; to either a paid support option, or
posting to this newsgroup. Any other ideas? Thanks for
your help.