Install Office on new pc. Was installed on old pc. (1 Viewer)

[Gasman]

A friend of mine has had his motherboard die.
I believe that one could uninstall office and reinstall on the new computer?

As he has no ability to uninstall, does anyone know a workaround please?

 

[isladogs]

No need to uninstall.
Your friend should be able to install Office on at least 2 PCs with the same license.
If its a recent version, he can go online and de-assign (is that a word) the Office install on the old machine

 

[Gasman]

Thank you Colin.
I would not say recent. He has had it a few years now. I will have to find out what version.

 

[isladogs]

I doubt it will be a problem installing it even with an older version such as 2010. Activation might be an issue though.

 

[Gasman]

Well it was the activation was concerned about.

 

[isladogs]

I recently managed to activate a second copy of Office 2010 online. Very old versions didn't require activation.

 

[BlueSpruce]

How can I deactivate Office2010 on a remote computer I installed it on 6 years ago?

 

[arnelgp]

HEU KMS

 

[Steve R.]

A friend of mine has had his motherboard die.
I believe that one could uninstall office and reinstall on the new computer?

As he has no ability to uninstall, does anyone know a workaround please?

If it is simply the motherboard and not a hard drive or an SSD drive you should be able to run office without any re-installation after installing a new motherboard (and attaching the old drive). My caveat is that I am using Linux so I don't know if simply replacing a motherboard that utilizes MS Windows would affect access to what is on your drives. (You may need to register your license, but the data should not be affected.)

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Steve's point is valid. If all you are doing is replacing the motherboard, there is no need to worry about old versions of Office. It is still on that hard drive. Now if you are replacing the whole machine, that's a little tricky. However, typically the license key is not tied to the machine, it is tied to the distribution media, whatever it was.

 

[Gasman]

If it is simply the motherboard and not a hard drive or an SSD drive you should be able to run office without any re-installation after installing a new motherboard (and attaching the old drive). My caveat is that I am using Linux so I don't know if simply replacing a motherboard that utilizes MS Windows would affect access to what is on your drives. (You may need to register your license, but the data should not be affected.)

No, his desktop is around 15 years old, so is going to buy a new one.
Initially it looked like the disk, as the computer did not boot up.
However when he brought it to me, I checked the disk (as that is what he said it was) and that started fine in a SATA dock and was accessible form one of my PCs.
So his data is safe at least.