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Goran Marinic
I am on my vacation, with my notebook (ultralight, no CD-ROM, not that I
carry my installation CD's with me without a reason) which has Office XP
installed. Because of the way I organised my work, I have to have almost
daily access to Word and Excel, for half an hour or usually less, but I
have to have it. Due to lack of any network or indeed anything more
sophisticated than lightbulb and POTS line in vicinity, I decided to
take out PC Card NIC which sometimes tickled me when I worked. Starting
Word two hours later, I was informed that I made a "significant hardware
change" and that all my Office applications will function in reduced
mode until I reactivated the product. Fine (yeah, right - I take
hot-swappable device out and I made a significant hardware change) BUT
the bloody thing requires me to put the original installation media
which is unfortunately located together with my Thinkpad docking station
containing CD-ROM, several hundred kilometres away. MS Hotline, in which
I am not putting much faith, stopped working ten minutes before my
discovery.
Any suggestions apart from cracking activation scheme, which is going to
be a last ditch solution provided it does not include double digit
download? Thanks.
carry my installation CD's with me without a reason) which has Office XP
installed. Because of the way I organised my work, I have to have almost
daily access to Word and Excel, for half an hour or usually less, but I
have to have it. Due to lack of any network or indeed anything more
sophisticated than lightbulb and POTS line in vicinity, I decided to
take out PC Card NIC which sometimes tickled me when I worked. Starting
Word two hours later, I was informed that I made a "significant hardware
change" and that all my Office applications will function in reduced
mode until I reactivated the product. Fine (yeah, right - I take
hot-swappable device out and I made a significant hardware change) BUT
the bloody thing requires me to put the original installation media
which is unfortunately located together with my Thinkpad docking station
containing CD-ROM, several hundred kilometres away. MS Hotline, in which
I am not putting much faith, stopped working ten minutes before my
discovery.
Any suggestions apart from cracking activation scheme, which is going to
be a last ditch solution provided it does not include double digit
download? Thanks.