2004 Microsoft Office Test Drive

[Paula]

Does anyone know if you can re-activate the Microsoft Office 2004 test
drive that comes pre-installed on new iMac G5s?

I never used the test drive during the first 30 days and they now say
it has expired. Is there an easy way to reactivate it to avoid having
to download a new test drive.

Thanks

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Not as far as I know....you should also read the small print before
downloading, there may be some way that the program recognizes a Test Drive
has already been on the computer.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I never used the test drive during the first 30 days and they now say
it has expired. Is there an easy way to reactivate it to avoid having
to download a new test drive.

I'm not even sure re-downloading a new test drive would make the
slightest differnece. Many apps in similar contexts write down an
invisible file with a time stamp. When you redownload and reisntall, the
app reads the time stamp and tells you it is expired. I don;t know how
Office does it, but I suspect something of this kind...

Corentin

 

[DaViD]

Surely a new test drive would also be timed out !