Hi Phillip:
Yes, it will generate a new code each time. That's because the date and
time of your installation are part of the code.
Yes, there is a limit to the number of installations you can legally do, and
the number varies depending upon which licence you bought.
"Re"-installs do not count against your total, only "new" installs. Some
customers re-install on each computer every time a user logs on (it's a
fairly extreme security measure...)
SOME Microsoft licences enable you to install only once. Others allow
installation on one desktop and one laptop, provided they can't both be used
at the same time. Other licences enable an unlimited number of
installations. The exact provisions vary from country to country.
Let's assume you installed on a laptop and it was stolen. So you install on
a new laptop, and that one goes up in flames. So you install on a third
laptop, and that one suffers a hard disk failure. Your fourth laptop is
left in a car which is also stolen. If you need a fifth installation within
the space of a year, the installation routine *may* refuse to validate
(depending on which country you are in).
At that point, you will be offered the chance to telephone Microsoft. Tell
them the whole sad story, and see what they say. Sometimes they will ask
for documentary proof of your bad luck to be faxed to them. The only time
*I* had to do it, I explained what happened and they immediately gave me a
new validation key over the phone.
(No, I did not have a run of bad luck: I was installing testing environments
on Virtual PCs, which I was then destroying at the end of each batch of
testing. After a few of those, I ran out of installs and had to ring up.)
Cheers
Just so you understand I did use the installer to install Office The
every time I have.
I noticed a strange thing. Even though I used the same serial number as
I was doing a reinstall (haven't had to do that in a while). It
generated a new code at the end that I had to write down. Even though I
was doing a reinstall on the same machine. There was a note that if you
exceeded a certain number of reinstalls you would have to pay full
purchase price over again. I believe the limit is five. By doing a
reinstall on my laptop once and installing on my Powerbook I am up to
three. How do they account for people, that have hard drive problems
system Problems, or purchase new machines?
Hi Phillip:
Mmmm... Only "Mac" software is drag-and-drop. That's only around two per
cent of software. Everyone else uses an installation script of some kind.
Even on the Mac, the move is to provide installers these days, to ensure
that all the pieces of increasingly complex applications land in the correct
place, and to fix up the file permissions and Finder associations.
Cheers
On 6/8/06 5:19 AM, in article OpC#
[email protected],
I do, I run installer routine on every package of software that uses
such. However, most software thes days is drag and drop.
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
You mean, "Like PC Office has?" Hmm... Now, there's a radical thought...
Mind you, I am not SURE that the Installer doesn't actually run Office
Remover and offer to hook the Test Drive out, if it finds it. Does anyone
know?
The problem, on the Mac, is that nobody ever runs the installer!!
Cheers
On 2/8/06 6:37 AM, in article #
[email protected],
"CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote:
Or at least write the full version's installer with a Test Drive 'Search &
Destroy' routine.
