Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!helios!aim1!jlr1801 From: jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu (Jeff Rife) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Excel 3.0 Woes Message-ID: <13498@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 20 Mar 91 03:43:57 GMT References: <1991Mar19.130208.86463@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: City of College Station, Texas Lines: 30 In article <1991Mar19.130208.86463@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> cie221u@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Neiger) writes: >We are having problems with Excel 3.0! > >When we installed it, someone installed it in their own personal name, not the >organization's. > >Is it possible to reset the name so that it can be installed correctly? I >believe that the name is in the EXCEL.INF file but Microsoft now encode the >username & company (presumably to prevent piracy but **stupid** if the software >is wrongly registered). > >If someone can help me or send me their NEW (unregistered) EXCEL.INF, it will be >greatly appreciated. I don't think that MS would appreciate passing around their program (or parts thereof), but just wait until you buy the next copy at your organization, and that will fix it. >Warning to All: Backup your disks before you run or use them so that if you do >make a mistake, it is not fatal! Yeah, it's nasty, but there is another way around it, pre-install, though. Just write protect the floppies, and keep hitting on the write-protect error. The install is perfect, but the master is not marked. -- Jeff Rife P.O. Box 3836 | "Because he was human; because he had goodness; College Station, TX 77844 | because he was moral they called him insane. (409) 823-2710 | Delusions of grandeur; visons of splendor; jlr1801@aim1.tamu.edu | A manic-depressive, he walks in the rain."