windows activation

[Southern at Heart]

I just reinstalled windows xp pro from my sony recovery dvd. I also
reinstalled Office 2003 from my original CD. When I open any office program
and look under activate, I click on it, but it seems to do nothing. I
thought I'd have to activate Office again, or if it activated itself, I read
something that said I should get a messege stating that it's already
activated, but I don't get any kind of response. Also, I chose activate
windows later, when running the install DVD, but now that I have my wireless
connection up and going, I can't find anywhere to activate windows. Did
windows and Office do this on their own?

 

[Southern at Heart]

I ran this:
oobe/msoobe /a
from the cmd window and it said windows was already activated.
....is there a way to tell if office 2003 is, too.
One place said if it was and I clicked on activate product under the help
tab, that it would give me a messege stating that it's activated, but it
doesn't do anything. I'm just afraid that something didn't go right in the
install...

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If Office is not activated as soon as you run any program in the suite you
would see an activation screen.