Ability to unregister or unactivate apps as part of uninstall

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/salesmarketing/actionpack/actionpackoverview/40009853

======Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that... >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

 

[Drizzt197three]

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.