Bo_Roche
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Will installing a legit Office 2010 over a fraudulant 2007 copy remove OGA notifications?
I have several winXP machines with OGA notifications for Office 2007 Professional.
We paid for theses and thought they were legit. Best forgeries I’ve ever seen… if they were cash I would have spent it without suspecting a thing.
I’m not interested in getting my money back or getting replacement copies from Microsoft. It won’t be worth the hassle and I want to upgrade to 2010 anyway.
My concern is that the OGA notifications will still be present if I install Office 2010 (full version not upgrade, retail box) over the bad 2007 install.
Does anyone have any experience with this or recommendations on how to handle the problem?
We paid for theses and thought they were legit. Best forgeries I’ve ever seen… if they were cash I would have spent it without suspecting a thing.
I’m not interested in getting my money back or getting replacement copies from Microsoft. It won’t be worth the hassle and I want to upgrade to 2010 anyway.
My concern is that the OGA notifications will still be present if I install Office 2010 (full version not upgrade, retail box) over the bad 2007 install.
Does anyone have any experience with this or recommendations on how to handle the problem?
DewFreak
Uninstall MS Office 2007 and then install your retail MS Office 2010.
ASKER
I will have to do this on several machines, so just overwriting it, allowing it to upgrade using the current settings, would save a lot of time. Is there a way to make that work?
I'm new here and I'm sorry if this breaks etiquite but, have you done this and you know it works, or is that what you expect to work? I'm looking for a confirmed answer since I don't have a machine to test this on, they are all used daily.
Thank you for the quick response.
I'm new here and I'm sorry if this breaks etiquite but, have you done this and you know it works, or is that what you expect to work? I'm looking for a confirmed answer since I don't have a machine to test this on, they are all used daily.
Thank you for the quick response.
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I'm going to try this out and confirm. I will award points eary next week.
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As far as I can tell this worked perfectly.
I can't seem to find a way to validate office 2010... all of the current methods just show no office products installed.
I did do a before and after with the WGA/OGA Diagnostic Tool and confirmed a bad office install before and no office installed after removal. It still shows no office installed even after installing 2010, but hey, there's no annoying get genuine message either.
Awarding points.
I can't seem to find a way to validate office 2010... all of the current methods just show no office products installed.
I did do a before and after with the WGA/OGA Diagnostic Tool and confirmed a bad office install before and no office installed after removal. It still shows no office installed even after installing 2010, but hey, there's no annoying get genuine message either.
Awarding points.