Auto-Insert Product Key during Office Installation



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

Open "Setup.ini" file in the setup folder and add PIDKEY= <product_key_without_dashes> in [Options] section, as following:

[Options]
PIDKEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You'll find Setup.ini file in direct root of CD in case of Office 2000 and in case of Office XP, you'll find it 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.



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18 Comments

  • I going to try it.
    thanks.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ya Vg, I agree with you nortan is well know one to make system slow... but here we cant use any other from that bcoz its company Licensed software its been controled from the server... U know now from the last two days accross the India all the Reliance Ada Group of companies this nortan has been installed but now we are in trouble as a tech support all the users are catching our neck as their pc are too slow dnt know what to do my supervisors are telling that its been already tested its working fine in most the pc's.......... so give me some idea if u have here we are using only windows 2000 and XP operating systems.

  • VG

    ^^ You can disable unnecessary startup items and services to speedup your system. Take a look at following topic:

    http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial-to-make-your-windows-xp-super-fast/

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

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

  • 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...

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