Office 2007 expiration problem solved!

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Richard Stricker

Hi, Good news! And a big thanks to Bob Buckland! Got my office 2007 to
reconsider my expiration date. It had been marking my installation expired
even though I had just then installed the trial.

If you notice my other posts you can see I had more issues than "just
installing the trial", I had downloaded and installed several trials while I
tried to find Outlook 07. When I finally figured out how to get Outlook 07
running I had mixed up several downloads and messed up my expiration date.

Bob Buckland suggested in a reply to my post about "nine lives used up" that
I find the data.dat file and rename it. He surmised (corectly) that the
multiple installations had mixed that file up. I tried his suggestion and
missed the solution but it gave me some idea that later came to give the
answer.

I was doing some backup of outlook, getting ready to maybe install outlook
xp, and was looking around in the program files for my pst backup files.
Wandered into the program data folder and looked around. Because I had just
done a search for data.dat and renamed there I didn't see the other obvious
candidate for renaming...OPA12.dat

Renamed that and opened and closed outlook and got a Feb 28 expiration date.
Other programs are functioning again.


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\Data opa12.dat <- rename this one and
office will correct the bad expiration date.

Thanks again to the newsgroup for being a source of ideas.

Richard Stricker
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you upgrade
to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you upgrade
to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you upgrade
to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you upgrade
to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very bad..
and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I tried
to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No problems
whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very bad..
and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I tried
to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No problems
whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very bad..
and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I tried
to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No problems
whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Red nosed reindeer

Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very bad..
and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I tried
to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No problems
whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

I rather like IE7 and it works just fine on my older computer. As for
WMP11 - yes, it's ugly but since I don't use it much, who cares? It works
and that's what matters.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very
bad.. and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I
tried to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that
gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No
problems whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends




Hi, Good news! And a big thanks to Bob Buckland! Got my office 2007 to
reconsider my expiration date. It had been marking my installation
expired even though I had just then installed the trial.

If you notice my other posts you can see I had more issues than "just
installing the trial", I had downloaded and installed several trials
while I tried to find Outlook 07. When I finally figured out how to get
Outlook 07 running I had mixed up several downloads and messed up my
expiration date.

Bob Buckland suggested in a reply to my post about "nine lives used up"
that I find the data.dat file and rename it. He surmised (corectly)
that the multiple installations had mixed that file up. I tried his
suggestion and missed the solution but it gave me some idea that later
came to give the answer.

I was doing some backup of outlook, getting ready to maybe install
outlook xp, and was looking around in the program files for my pst
backup files. Wandered into the program data folder and looked around.
Because I had just done a search for data.dat and renamed there I
didn't see the other obvious candidate for renaming...OPA12.dat

Renamed that and opened and closed outlook and got a Feb 28 expiration
date. Other programs are functioning again.


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\Data opa12.dat <- rename this one and
office will correct the bad expiration date.

Thanks again to the newsgroup for being a source of ideas.

Richard Stricker
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

I rather like IE7 and it works just fine on my older computer. As for
WMP11 - yes, it's ugly but since I don't use it much, who cares? It works
and that's what matters.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very
bad.. and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I
tried to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that
gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No
problems whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends




Hi, Good news! And a big thanks to Bob Buckland! Got my office 2007 to
reconsider my expiration date. It had been marking my installation
expired even though I had just then installed the trial.

If you notice my other posts you can see I had more issues than "just
installing the trial", I had downloaded and installed several trials
while I tried to find Outlook 07. When I finally figured out how to get
Outlook 07 running I had mixed up several downloads and messed up my
expiration date.

Bob Buckland suggested in a reply to my post about "nine lives used up"
that I find the data.dat file and rename it. He surmised (corectly)
that the multiple installations had mixed that file up. I tried his
suggestion and missed the solution but it gave me some idea that later
came to give the answer.

I was doing some backup of outlook, getting ready to maybe install
outlook xp, and was looking around in the program files for my pst
backup files. Wandered into the program data folder and looked around.
Because I had just done a search for data.dat and renamed there I
didn't see the other obvious candidate for renaming...OPA12.dat

Renamed that and opened and closed outlook and got a Feb 28 expiration
date. Other programs are functioning again.


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\Data opa12.dat <- rename this one and
office will correct the bad expiration date.

Thanks again to the newsgroup for being a source of ideas.

Richard Stricker
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

I rather like IE7 and it works just fine on my older computer. As for
WMP11 - yes, it's ugly but since I don't use it much, who cares? It works
and that's what matters.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very
bad.. and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I
tried to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that
gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No
problems whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends




Hi, Good news! And a big thanks to Bob Buckland! Got my office 2007 to
reconsider my expiration date. It had been marking my installation
expired even though I had just then installed the trial.

If you notice my other posts you can see I had more issues than "just
installing the trial", I had downloaded and installed several trials
while I tried to find Outlook 07. When I finally figured out how to get
Outlook 07 running I had mixed up several downloads and messed up my
expiration date.

Bob Buckland suggested in a reply to my post about "nine lives used up"
that I find the data.dat file and rename it. He surmised (corectly)
that the multiple installations had mixed that file up. I tried his
suggestion and missed the solution but it gave me some idea that later
came to give the answer.

I was doing some backup of outlook, getting ready to maybe install
outlook xp, and was looking around in the program files for my pst
backup files. Wandered into the program data folder and looked around.
Because I had just done a search for data.dat and renamed there I
didn't see the other obvious candidate for renaming...OPA12.dat

Renamed that and opened and closed outlook and got a Feb 28 expiration
date. Other programs are functioning again.


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\Data opa12.dat <- rename this one and
office will correct the bad expiration date.

Thanks again to the newsgroup for being a source of ideas.

Richard Stricker
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MVP]

I rather like IE7 and it works just fine on my older computer. As for
WMP11 - yes, it's ugly but since I don't use it much, who cares? It works
and that's what matters.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
Have you see what is happening in the IE7 newsgroup?

The wave of problems is phenomenal....

"Ie7 is junk, buggy, bad interface, take it back, MS should never had
released it" and other comments like this are the norm there.

Ie7 is the equivalent of Netscape 6, but at a much larger scale since they
put it in the updates...

as for WMP11 ok... I had no big problems with it.. but the UI is very
bad.. and
it really is not anything much better than wmp10... Personally I never use
the library
and its frustrating that it wants to show that whenever it starts.

The black gui is disgusting... you cant alter the color correctly.. I
tried to
advise the developers of another way to make the color changer better..
but they did not listen....lol why am I not surprised????

I could think of lots of things that would make wmp a better player... why
didn't they do
things that people need...?

Anyway after seeing the horrible job they did on wmp11 I abandoned wmp
altogether and now use a superior media player that is free
www.gomplayer.com

And of course I don't use IE7, I use a "shell" for the ie7 engine that
gives
a superb interface and functionality... www.avantbrowser.com

its funny... avant has 1 developer and gomplayer is made by a small Korean
company... yet they
make products that are 1000 times better than what MS is releasing after 5
years thousands of developers
and millions of dollars!



JoAnn Paules said:
Funny - I've been running IE7 since the first beta and WMP 11. No
problems whatsoever on this system.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




Red nosed reindeer said:
dont worry... you will have more of such joy of bug hunting if you
upgrade to vista

if you want similar challanges, install ie7 and wmp11 on xp...

the adventure never ends




Hi, Good news! And a big thanks to Bob Buckland! Got my office 2007 to
reconsider my expiration date. It had been marking my installation
expired even though I had just then installed the trial.

If you notice my other posts you can see I had more issues than "just
installing the trial", I had downloaded and installed several trials
while I tried to find Outlook 07. When I finally figured out how to get
Outlook 07 running I had mixed up several downloads and messed up my
expiration date.

Bob Buckland suggested in a reply to my post about "nine lives used up"
that I find the data.dat file and rename it. He surmised (corectly)
that the multiple installations had mixed that file up. I tried his
suggestion and missed the solution but it gave me some idea that later
came to give the answer.

I was doing some backup of outlook, getting ready to maybe install
outlook xp, and was looking around in the program files for my pst
backup files. Wandered into the program data folder and looked around.
Because I had just done a search for data.dat and renamed there I
didn't see the other obvious candidate for renaming...OPA12.dat

Renamed that and opened and closed outlook and got a Feb 28 expiration
date. Other programs are functioning again.


C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Office\Data opa12.dat <- rename this one and
office will correct the bad expiration date.

Thanks again to the newsgroup for being a source of ideas.

Richard Stricker
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
S

socal sxt

I am also having the same problem as you , but I can not find the .dat files
you mentioned here. Any other ideas?
 
S

socal sxt

I am also having the same problem as you , but I can not find the .dat files
you mentioned here. Any other ideas?
 
S

socal sxt

I am also having the same problem as you , but I can not find the .dat files
you mentioned here. Any other ideas?
 

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