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Title: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: vortexau on April 18, 2003, 05:38:22 PM

The Register warns (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30301.html) that corporate users of Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) running on Win2k are being repeatedly hit by the Product Registration Wizard. Even filling in all the details doesn't prevent the same thing from happening again next time the App is started. It is claimed that the solution is to set PC clocks back two years.

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: the_leander on April 18, 2003, 06:06:10 PM

Thats got to be the sneekiest way ever of getting people to upgrade their software. Boy am I glad I use star office for anything important on windows.

10-1 says that they don't exactly rush out a fix for this and that 2002 gets hit by the same "feature" in about a year.

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: filson on April 18, 2003, 06:11:14 PM

*lol* ms to the rescue :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: SilvrDrgn on April 18, 2003, 06:22:07 PM

Never did like M$'s crappy software.  This makes me dislike it even more.

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: alx on April 18, 2003, 08:18:38 PM

Quote

It is claimed that the solution is to set PC clocks back two years.

M$ are behind anyway :-)

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: Quixote on April 18, 2003, 09:52:35 PM

;-) It is interesting to note that the '97 version doesn't share this headache.  It does everything that I need it to, so I bought it, secondhand, from some fellow who had "upgraded" to the 2000 version.

:-( I feel kinda sorry for him, now.

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: System on April 19, 2003, 10:06:37 AM

I have it on my W2K Laptop with no such trouble...

Though it is an MSDN Licensed copy with service pack 3 applied

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: amigamad on April 19, 2003, 03:23:31 PM

simple solution dont use microsoft office 2000 use another something else.

Title: Re: Time Bomb hits Office 2000 on Windows 2000 PCs
Post by: Hammer on April 20, 2003, 05:18:29 AM

One could apply MS Office 2000 SR-2 from
This Link (http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/SP2upd.aspx)

This issue is old (sigh)...

I haven't encountered this particlar problem with
1. "Windows XP Professional (SP1)" and Office 2000.
2. "Windows Server 2003  Enterprise Edition"  and Office 2000.

No software has a monoply in regards to bugs.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/1999/12/17/0003.html