"susa320" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:2813a54557e12e9bcf4f0ae0ef3daec6@nntp-gateway.com...[color=blue]
>
> Thanks Chad,
>
> I am going to try turning those off too.
>
> I am running thru the deleting again. Somehow there are files that keep
> coming back...so when I get done with that, I'll run the CleanUp...I got
> a feeling there are still some old Office 2000 on there...when I
> installed the Trial, I didn't remove it, but the Trial did, but left my
> Access, which I still used. I just removed that before starting to
> remove the Trial.
>
> And now the Source Engine is back on, I deleted it in the one file, but
> it's still in temp and I turned it off in servcies.
>
> Just because I'm asking for help here, does not mean that this is
> pirated. Is that what he was saying?
>
> There are alot of posts on this. This just happened to be the one I got
> in on.
>
> You are being very helpful, Thank You!
>
> When I entered my key, before starting the download I got a green check
> mark, doesn't that mean it validated?
>
>
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> susa320[/color]

Hi--

I'm not concerned with piracy detection unless and when the methods to deter
it (WGA) interfere with installations or how the OS or Office works, and it
has at times. I understand the concern and the impact on partners, though.

[url]http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx[/url]


MSFT has a payroll of billions of dollars to work that angle. When Brad
Smith wants to start paying me what he makes, then I'll go to work for MSFT
as a sideline in piracy detection. In 2007, Microsoft filed over fifty
lawsuits in nearly two dozen countries against sellers allegedly hawking
counterfeit software online. They have put agents in cars in Russia and
other countries trying to watch for and catch people selling out of trunks
and vans. I've been to their talks, and gotten many copies of their pirate
maps. I have a reasonable enough knowledge of law to know that the Obama
DOJ has lost every appellate case it has submitted motions in that has been
ruled on, and that they haven't veered from the filings of the Bush
administration significantly despite two brilliant con law profs from
Harvard and GWashington installed at OLC, and have ridiculously made Dawn
Johnsen wait months for confirmation because of the posturing of Senators
who wouldn't understand Dawn's briefs and law reviews to save their butts.

I am concerned though to get whatever is in the way of your installing
Office 2007 out of the way. I have just one more thing to say again in this
regard; anything you have on that box to do with Office whether it's 2K or
the source engine please shift +delete that file off the box. Please follow
the Office uninstall MSKB. Please note and do what I told you to do that I
did in modifying the steps in that MSKB--it worked.

After you've done those things, and run the WUCU, then try to install your
edition of Office. You can do everything I asked you to do in a reasonably
brief amount of time. Don't just try one at a time. Get 'em all done.

And then turn off your AV and firewall for the period of time you attempt
your Office install.

There are many ways to tell if your Office is legit. MSFT devotes websites
to this, and if your Enterprise came from a volume license, I'm sure there
are credentials for that. MSFT has a certificate of authenticity for retail
purchases. I suspect they have the same for volume licenses, but I've never
had to deal with volume licensing in any detail. The certificates of
authenticity are attached to the package for the CD or DVD from a vendor
whether on line or bricks and mortar. They can be counterfited, but I don't
know many things that can't. When OEM vendors ship MSFT software, they ship
the COA with the disk.

Good luck, and please give us some followup,.

CH