Microsoft® Office® 2010 Activation Wizard

Get to know more about Microsoft Office 2010 Activation Wizard

Microsoft Office 2010 would include an Activation Wizard. In order to fully use Microsoft Office 2010, you have to activate it. If you would not activate the product after you install it, Microsoft Office 2010 programs could be started only in reduced functionality mode. In this mode you could not save modifications to documents or create a new document. Additional functionality might be reduced also. No existing Microsoft Office 2010 files would be damaged while the product is in reduced-functionality mode. Activation is performed to check that you have installed the genuine version of Microsoft product. Product activation is an anti-piracy technology which is designed to verify that the product is legitimately licensed. When you activate Microsoft Office 2010, no personal information is sent to Microsoft.

Following are the tips to resolve issues with Microsoft Office 2010 Activation Wizard:

• Error Message
• Registry Key Missing Error
• General Troubleshooting

Error Message

Sometimes you would get the error message "copy of 2010 is not activated". Then you would see a button labeled 'Change Product Key' on the error dialog. Click that button and enter your 25 character Office product key. If key is correct, you would get a green mark or else you get a red X. If you get red X you would sure that you have entered the right key. Check that in e-mail or in the CD cover. After that when you get a green mark, click 'Continue'. Then you would get two options: Install now and Customize. Click 'Install now'. Then Microsoft Office 2010 setup would reconfigure. Select any application in Microsoft Office 2010 and complete the Wizard.

Registry Key Missing Error

Another activation problem is that you get an error "an unspecified error has occurred, please try again later". This might b due to missing registry key. Then open the command prompt, and type some command like "REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCURRENTCONTROLSETCONTROLCLASS{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} /v UPPERFILTERS /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d PartMgr /f". Press 'Enter' key. Then type 'Exit' in command prompt and reboot the system. To get command prompt type "cmd" in 'Run'.

You need to make sure that date and the time are correctly set in the OS that you are using. If the Microsoft Office 2010 product runs in reduced functionality mode, you might be using a trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 product. These issues might cause trouble in Microsoft Office 2010 Activation Wizard. So try to check these. If you replaced your previous system with a new computer, try to activate the Microsoft Office 2010 product over the Internet.

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