Activating Dan 2/26/2007 3:39:53 PM Currently I am a student studying abroad in Poland and a few months back I picked up the OneNote 2007 trial. I found out recently that my trial expires on the 28th. I went on to NewEgg.com and picked up a copy of OneNote 2007 Student. The CD and key was shipped to my home back in the United States and my brother sent me the CD key. While trying to convert the trial to the full version in an effort to not lose my notes for the semester and continue using the program. My CD key gets rejected while trying to activate, I have had my brother double check and resend my key just in case, and it still gets rejected. I have a genuine copy of OneNote 2007, but I can not use it and I can not reinstall it from the CD because the CD is in the United States while I am in Europe. I am also not able to get Microsoft technical support because I do not have a product ID since I can not install it. My question, what options do I have other than having the CD sent to me? I have tried having my brotehr install it on his computer and send me the product ID to use Microsoft support, but it requires activation before installation, and I wouldn't want it to complicate things further. Any help would be great, thanks!

Re: Activating "Erik Sojka (MVP)" <esojka[ at ]ms-onenote.net.nospam> 3/1/2007 12:23:55 AM Are you possibly using a Polish version of Windows? Are you connecting to the North American Mirosoft site? Assuming that you type the code in correctly, the activation system might be getting confused if it somehow detects the Polish setting. I'm not completely sure. There should be a phone number option for activation. More details can be found here on the process: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302806 http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=552 The particular phone number to be called will depend on a few factors, but should be listed on the activation wizard. Maybe you can communicate with your brother via IM and have him call the activation center and you can cut/paste the various numbers and codes required for the activation on your computer via IM while he is on the phone. =?Utf-8?B?RGFu?= <Dan[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:3FAF4FD2-75AE-46E5-AA49-A953B7A47A58[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > Currently I am a student studying abroad in Poland and a few months > back I picked up the OneNote 2007 trial. I found out recently that my > trial expires on the 28th. I went on to NewEgg.com and picked up a > copy of OneNote 2007 Student. The CD and key was shipped to my home > back in the United States and my brother sent me the CD key. While > trying to convert the trial to the full version in an effort to not > lose my notes for the semester and continue using the program. My CD > key gets rejected while trying to activate, I have had my brother > double check and resend my key just in case, and it still gets > rejected. I have a genuine copy of OneNote 2007, but I can not use it > and I can not reinstall it from the CD because the CD is in the United > States while I am in Europe. I am also not able to get Microsoft > technical support because I do not have a product ID since I can not > install it. > > My question, what options do I have other than having the CD sent to > me? I have tried having my brotehr install it on his computer and send > me the product ID to use Microsoft support, but it requires activation > before installation, and I wouldn't want it to complicate things > further. Any help would be great, thanks! >

RE: Activating Irina Yatsenko (MS) 3/1/2007 4:21:31 PM The trial you've installed is a Retail OneNote, and the product you've bought is Home and Student. The functionality is exactly the same, but licensing is different so it's impossible to use the key from one product to activate the other (don't ask me why it should be so complicated, I don't get it myself). Basically you either need to reinstall OneNote on your machine to have H&S version installed and then use the key your brother has sent you (if you can borrow a CD from a fellow student of yours to install, it's fine because the activation by the key you've bought is what matters; otherwise your brother will have to mail the disk to you). Note: reinstall won't affect your notes, you'll have full access to them after the reinstall. Or you need to buy a retail key (either by converting OneNote online, or by buying another box) and use it to activate you currently installed version of OneNote. -Irina === "Dan" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Currently I am a student studying abroad in Poland and a few months back I > picked up the OneNote 2007 trial. I found out recently that my trial expires > on the 28th. I went on to NewEgg.com and picked up a copy of OneNote 2007 > Student. The CD and key was shipped to my home back in the United States and > my brother sent me the CD key. While trying to convert the trial to the full > version in an effort to not lose my notes for the semester and continue using > the program. My CD key gets rejected while trying to activate, I have had my > brother double check and resend my key just in case, and it still gets > rejected. I have a genuine copy of OneNote 2007, but I can not use it and I > can not reinstall it from the CD because the CD is in the United States while > I am in Europe. I am also not able to get Microsoft technical support because > I do not have a product ID since I can not install it. > > My question, what options do I have other than having the CD sent to me? > I have tried having my brotehr install it on his computer and send me the > product ID to use Microsoft support, but it requires activation before > installation, and I wouldn't want it to complicate things further. Any help > would be great, thanks!