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easy way to check how many licenses left on MS office 2010?

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kirstiex
kirstiex Posts: 175 Forumite
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As per title really - I have several MS office 2010 discs that were lying around in our charity office and someone was going to throw away but thought I'd check if there were any licenses left on them first.

Is there any easy way to check - I already have this version so don't really want to go through the motions on trying to install if I don't have to.

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  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
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    edited 1 June 2012 at 3:52PM
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  • kirstiex
    kirstiex Posts: 175 Forumite
    Thanks - the box and product key is all in tact. I was hoping I could find out if there were any uses left on the product key to sell so we could put money back into our charity.
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,843 Forumite
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    On each PC/laptop, run Produkey to find the key used for Office 2010 on that machine. Beware that some AV products class many of Nir Sofer's utilities as containing trojans (different AVs flag different utilities!). They don't.
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    Its really simple.

    If it is the OEM version, it is only legal for the first machine it is installed on.
    If it is the Retail or Upgrade version, it is legal for whatever machine it is installed on and is retired on other machines.
    If it is a volume licence, it'll be a completely different sticker.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    Hammyman wrote: »
    Its really simple.

    If it is the OEM version, it is only legal for the first machine it is installed on.
    If it is the Retail or Upgrade version, it is legal for whatever machine it is installed on and is retired on other machines.
    If it is a volume licence, it'll be a completely different sticker.


    What if it is a three user license. Providing you uninstall can you reload on another machine. D0 they track if is on more than three machines?

    What if you never connect to the internet?

    Just interested.
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  • gaming_guy
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    edited 1 June 2012 at 3:52PM
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  • bengalknights
    bengalknights Posts: 5,021 Forumite
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    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    What if it is a three user license. Providing you uninstall can you reload on another machine. D0 they track if is on more than three machines?

    What if you never connect to the internet?

    Just interested.

    Not really i have my office 2010 from software4student running on 3 laptop and 2 pcs.

    I think they would only track it if it was heavily abused.
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