Office xp frontpage key after install

Thank you for any help. I have some reports due saved on my old software that I hope to access as soon as I can! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question 2. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Rohn MVP. In reply to elhuba's post on March 14, You can use any of the newer versions of the applications, ie Office , to open the old files.

I've already installed this and my frontpage already works. How do i get it to stop trying to install everytime i reboot? I don't have a direct solution to your problem. It seems as if some key in the registry is wrongly telling the installer to start. A first step in diagnosing would be to get Windows Installer to create a log file. After giving up and living with the installer prompting me everytime i booted up, i did some research and found this in the startup menu:.

What the heck is this? I removed it from the startup which i never put there and now it stopped doing it. Also, i figured out this thing does the same thing when i click on 'new office document' in the start up menu. Sign in to vote. I have been using the same software on my pc for years. I am now getting a message that my software is not validated. The only thing I can think of is that my motherboard crashed about a year ago, so I bought a new pc, and had the hard drive from the old machine transferred to the new machine.

I still have the microsoft office frontpage disk, and product key for the above. Tuesday, October 20, AM. Hello Chalgravesteve, Microsoft Office, as far as I remember, has always been its own program separate from the operating system. With Office and now Office , many manufacturers have preinstalled a limited use Trial of Office that expires after a certain number of days or a certain number of uses.

In order to continue to use the Office Trial at full functionality, you have to puchase a perpetual license. You wrote, "I thought that the XP package included excel, word, powerpoint viewer, outlook express etc etc" Windows XP does include the Outlook Express email program. However many folks confuse Outlook Express with Outlook, which is a component of the vast majority of Microsoft Office suites.

Excel and Word are not include in any edition of Windows, they are cornerstone components of just about every version of Microsoft Office Suites. The Powerpoint Viewer is a free download from Microsoft downloads. The full Powerpoint Program is another one that is a component of almost every edition of the Microsoft Office Suites.

A "blocked" VLK is one that was issued by Microsoft to a business, educational institution, or governmental agency for their exclusive use in accordance with a Volume Licensing Agreement. You said the program was put on your computer during an upgrade, so you don't have the CD.

If you don't have the original installation media and CD Key that goes along with it, you are running pirated sofware.

The person who did the upgrade on your computer should not have installed it illegally and you can be prosecuted for running an illegal copy of the software. I would suggest you perform option 2 above to solve the problem. That is, unless you want to try to find a copy of the 5 year old software and purchase it. Good luck finding it. Half way down the page. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

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