Can't activate my product key

[LawyerGrl]

I'm trying to activate my product key - I have a laptop - but it is saying
standard edition, when I have the Windows XP Home Edition sticker with the
product key on the bottom of my laptop. How do I activate the product when
it won't accept the code I type in?

 

[Bob I]

If you are trying to activate Office using the Operating system key, it
is not ever going to work. You need to use the Office activation key
from the CD case.

 

[lawyergrl]

but it didn't come in a CD case, it was already pre-loaded on the laptop? am
i just not going to be able to use and change the documents that I have
already made? Or did the laptop definitely HAVE to come with a standard
edition product key, and i just need to search through all of the paperwork
to find it?

 

[Bob I]

If you are referring to the Trial version, and it's expired then you
will need to buy a real version. If you have an OEM version, you will
need to contact the vendor to straighten this out.