installing Office 97 Pro Edition on a Windows XP Media Center equi

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this is legit, I own this Office 97 software, from a computer I bought about
4 computers ago, it has PP, Word, Outlook, Excel and Access. I am able to
open everything but Access . . . when attempting to open Access I get a pop
up that states that the license for this is not loaded on my machine. But
everything else opens just fine, why not access . . . and what would be the
licence? I had to enter the product key before downloading this. I cannot
afford to buy this suite anytime in the near future . . . but 97 is good
enough to refresh some long lost skills, to practice with . . . can anyone
help? BTW, the pop-up about not having the license is pretty useless as it
gives me no clue as to what I have to do to satisfy the requirement. Many
thanks!!
 
"There Is No License" Error Message Starting Microsoft Access
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;141373

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| this is legit, I own this Office 97 software, from a computer I bought about
| 4 computers ago, it has PP, Word, Outlook, Excel and Access. I am able to
| open everything but Access . . . when attempting to open Access I get a pop
| up that states that the license for this is not loaded on my machine. But
| everything else opens just fine, why not access . . . and what would be the
| licence? I had to enter the product key before downloading this. I cannot
| afford to buy this suite anytime in the near future . . . but 97 is good
| enough to refresh some long lost skills, to practice with . . . can anyone
| help? BTW, the pop-up about not having the license is pretty useless as it
| gives me no clue as to what I have to do to satisfy the requirement. Many
| thanks!!
 
mckenzierivergirl said:
this is legit, I own this Office 97 software, from a computer I bought about
4 computers ago, it has PP, Word, Outlook, Excel and Access.
Click to expand...


From your description, you have an OEM license for Office. This means
that it's "legal" for you to use that copy of Office *only* on the
original computer with which it was purchased. An OEM software license
cannot legitimately be transferred to a new computer.


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