Weaver wrote:
Anyone here know how to relocate Office from one computer to another
without loosing the registration with MS?
Not that I'm aware of, this is a major bug bear I have with software
that activates and it's not just MS now that does this, RedGate's
SQLCompare for instance is activated nowadays.
IMHO any software that requires activation should have a facility to
de-activate, i.e. take it back to the state prior to activation so that
it needs to be re-activated or removed. Then at the same time the useage
count on the vendor's end goes down then the activation of a new install
on another machine will go ahead just fine.
I'm always in a position where I'm moving machines around, upgrade one
and a line of hand-me-downs becomes apparent with the lesser machine
becoming a doorstop or being thrown out. But all the licenced software
on that machine I would like to transfer to the new machine. That's not
the only reason either, if Windows was a little more robust I wouldn't
spend so much time re-installing anyway. At one point I had 10 licences
of Windows XP, it was installed on 4 machines and I couldn't reactivate
another, so 6 licences scuppered.
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Pretentious? Moi?