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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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Before

[Options]
; The option section is used for specifying individual Installer Properties.
;USERNAME=Customer
;COMPANYNAME=my company
;INSTALLLOCATION=C:\Program Files\MyApp
OWC10EXISTS=1

After

[Options]
; The option section is used for specifying individual Installer Properties.
;USERNAME=Customer
;COMPANYNAME=my company
PIDKEY=GWH28DGCMPP6RC46J4MT3HFDY
;INSTALLLOCATION=C:\Program Files\MyApp
OWC10EXISTS=1

Result

wonderful,

thanks alots
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Before

[Options]
; The option section is used for specifying individual Installer Properties.
;USERNAME=Customer
;COMPANYNAME=my company
;INSTALLLOCATION=C:\Program Files\MyApp
OWC10EXISTS=1

After

[Options]
; The option section is used for specifying individual Installer Properties.
;USERNAME=Customer
;COMPANYNAME=my company
PIDKEY=GWH28DGCMPP6RC96T4MT3HWDX
;INSTALLLOCATION=C:\Program Files\MyApp
OWC10EXISTS=1

Result

wonderful,

thanks alots
Srinivasan

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VG

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mmg

does this trick works with computer games and other software setup Cds as well?
arun

plz vishal how to i insert sn into office 2007 & 2008
Al

Apologies for posting here, but I don't seem to be successful anywhere else at your site to get my issue resolved... I am an admirer of your work, but I think that I am a victim of your success.

Issues: [XP, SP1-2-3/512RAM/120Gb]
1...can you have too many context menu items? ...and then there is a battle among which stay and which disappear...is there a limit? ..."merge" and "search" constantly have to be reinstalled

2...in right pane of Explorer...right click on any file or folder, or just in empty space...menu appears with options

now, the fun begins...trying to get the cursur/mouse to go where I want it to...it staggers like a drunken sailor dragging cannon balls chained to his feet and hops all over the place...after a couple times of trying to manoeuver the cursor to its destination, I give up and then try anew...it then seems to work like nothing was amiss...it looks like a tug of war between resources...

any suggestions...
Prakash Verma

for 2007 edit config.xml files in that u add PID key
Ntombifuthi

Help me with product key