Install Office on new pc. Was installed on old pc.

[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.

 

[RonPaii]

If the activation is a problem, use the phone option (Microsoft clearing house). MS will normally supply a code for activation without a much fuss.

 

[isladogs]

I tried that some time ago. Phone activation no longer available for old versions such as 2010, at least not in the UK. Online only

 

[BlueSpruce]

I bought a perpetual version for up to 3 PC's through Digital River in 2011. When installing from the CD it activates onlne after entering the product key. If I intalled it on more than 3 PC's it used to deactivate one of the previous installs, but it no longer does that after 2010 was EOL'd.

 

[Gasman]

Well, I was very suprised when windows downloaded backedup Office and a few other files from OneDrive.
However he ended up with New Outlook, and when I tried downloading Classic Outlook, it wanted him to purchase 365 subscription.

So we removed everything Office and bought and Installed Office LTSC 2024.

Now he is back up and running after I added his email accounts to the standard outlook.

 

[BlueSpruce]

However he ended up with New Outlook, and when I tried downloading Classic Outlook, it wanted him to purchase 365 subscription.

So we removed everything Office and bought and Installed Office LTSC 2024.

If it was a backup, it should've downloaded the same install he had on his old box. Why pay a subscription when he already had a product key for a perpetual version?
If your friend had Access, Excel, Word, or other Office component automating Classic Outlook, then you will need to re-install Classic Outlook.

 

[Gasman]

He did not have pro office, just basic. He has no need for access, though he has it now.
Though this version, did not accept default email account? The email account used is what ever account file you are in at the time, but he can live with that

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Though this version, did not accept default email account? The email account used is what ever account file you are in at the time, but he can live with that

If he still has a file names <his-old-account-name>.pst located under \users\<his-computer-login-name>\documents\Outlook files\ then his previous files might be intact. Copy them to the corresponding place on the new machine and then you could revert to the old name.

 

[BlueSpruce]

If he still has a file names <his-old-account-name>.pst located under \users\<his-computer-login-name>\documents\Outlook files\ then his previous files might be intact. Copy them to the corresponding place on the new machine and then you could revert to the old name.

I would imagine he would like to recover all emails he received, sent, contacts list, calendar events, and continue to use the email address(es) he was using before. One of the beauties of using the Thunderbird email client is that all the above mentioned items are saved locally on my desktop and I make daily backups of it.

 

[Gasman]

If he still has a file names <his-old-account-name>.pst located under \users\<his-computer-login-name>\documents\Outlook files\ then his previous files might be intact. Copy them to the corresponding place on the new machine and then you could revert to the old name.

I set up his accounts again. I had to anyway, even if I had access to his old pst files, which I did, as the old disk was fine. That is now his backup disk and he can move any old data at his leisure.
It was really annoying though, as imagine if I was telling him how to do it over the phone, and it was not happening. You would think he was doing something incorrectly?

My 2019 Outlook respects the default choice made.