How to Create Unattended Installation of Microsoft Office, Insert Product Key Automatically

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Today in this article, we are going to tell you a simple trick which will help you in quickly installing Microsoft Office in your computer system.

After following the trick mentioned in this tutorial, whenever you'll run Microsoft Office setup, the product key will be inserted automatically and you'll not need to enter it manually.

So this tutorial will help you in creating an unattended installation of Microsoft Office.

You just need to follow these simple steps:

Open "Setup.ini" file present in Microsoft Office setup folder and add PIDKEY= <product_key_without_dashes> line in [Options] section as given following:

[Options]
PIDKEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In case of Office 2000,you'll find Setup.ini file in the root of setup CD. If you have Office XP setup, you'll find the file in FILES\SETUP folder.

From now whenever you'll run the setup, the Product-Key will be auto-inserted.

PS: Remember there must be no Dashes (-) between Product key's digits.

NOTE: For Office 2007 and later, you'll need to edit "config.xml" file instead of Setup.ini file.

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nitwit

What about Office 2007?
Ronak Agrawal

Gud Tip
gandip

2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

I have 3 folders named OWE10 ,OWE11 and setup, all of them has a file named setup.ini.
what about that?
thanks anyway.
VG

^^ Which Office version are you talking about?
Srinivasan

Hi VG, im also a great fan of....
I had a problem in my pc like when opening any drive in my system its showing autoplay option but where as i can able to right click and open the drive... how to come out this issue plz help...
VG

^^ Enable “Show hidden files” option and disable "Hide protected system file" option in “Tools -> Folder Options” and then search for “Autorun.inf” file in all drives. You'll get them in root of all drives (e.g. in C:\, D:\ and so on), If you find the file, delete it.
Srinivasan

Hi Vg,

I had a problem like in my office we used Trend Micro Virus scanner earlier and now its been replaced with Symentec antivirus but what happen after it got installed the pc's performance was getting too slow.... im using the licensed version of symentec what to do in this case... any Idea Plz Help me.......
VG

^^ Norton is very well known to make system slow. Better to use NOD32 or Kaspersky instead of Norton.
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

I going to try it.
thanks.