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The handy thing about Microsoft’s programs though, is that both of them can have their installations modified to make the install process less interactive or even almost totally silent. Of course, there are ways to retrieve product keys from a running computer, and this is where keeping a backup of your license keys is a good idea.Īs many product keys are quite long, it’s a bit tiresome having to enter them in every time you install a piece of software, Windows and Microsoft Office being two products that both come with long product keys. If that’s not bad enough, it gets even worse when the packaging for the software has become misplaced or damaged in such a way that the product key is not readable or available when it needs to be entered to use the software. One of the frustrating things you will come across as a PC user, is having to enter a long serial number to play a game, or when you install Windows, or even when you need to install a commercial application. Then, you can enter the product license key. The next time that you try to run an Office application, you will be prompted for a new product license key. When you find the subkey for the product from which you want to remove the existing product license key, delete the following entries:.If you find additional subkeys that reference Microsoft 12.0 registration, open each subkey, and then identify the product by the ProductName entry.įor example: ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration\ Note You may also find another subkey that resembles the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.Close all Microsoft Office applications.This describes an other error, but it gave me the ability to reenter a new Product Key. I found the following solution on the Internet.