Win 2000 Pro-XP dual boot & Office 2000

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A friend recently bought the old server from his local
office when corporate upgraded all the offices machines to
new XP units. This server was bought locally, but had Win
2000 Pro and Office installed by corporate IT (which of
course they got rid of their disks when they upgraded).

He and his family not liking the 2000 environment, bought
and installed XP Home Edition (w/o asking me first) and
now would like me to figure out a way to get to Office
2000 while booted in XP.
Is there a way to just copy over the files, and some
blanket copy of Registry entries, or will I have to weed
the registry out one line at a time till I get all of the
Office 2000 entries copied over?
If I can accomplish this either way, I can then get rid of
the Win 2000 partition and free up some major disk space.

Their was a license bought and payed for by corporate, but
their IT is way less than friendly, and he has had no luck
in trying to deal with them.
 
Need a little more info. I think you may have licensing problems here.

If the Office version that is installed is a volume license version, you have zero
rights to it and the company should NOT have let it go out with it still installed.
It is now considered pirated and should be removed.

If the Office version is a retail standalone version, but the company retained the
license, then you still have not rights to it. It is now considered pirated and
should be removed.

If the Office version is an OEM version, it is locked to the machine and you now have
rights to it. You can transfer it to the new XP install. But... you need install
media to do it. Under this scenario, if you can borrow Install media, you can
reinstall in XP. Extracting the product key from the Win2k install is easy using
this:

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

Good luck!!

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Randy Byrne
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