Why won't Office let me be legit?
March 15, 2007 6:13 PM   Subscribe

I'm trying to clean up my act and bought a legitimate copy of Office for my Mac. Problem is, after deleting my (bootlegged) copy, it's still recognizing that copy over th legimitate one. What's up?

Okay, so, for awhile I've been using a bootlegged copy of Office on my Mac. I recently bought it and attempted to uninstall the bootlegged copy (using the freeware AppDelete) in order to register my current copy. However, when I got the actual copy up and running, it keeps booting me off saying that the registered user is on and I cannot use the program.
My question is, what would be causing this? What files am I missing to delete to get the bootlegged copy completely off my computer and get my legit copy on there without the kick-off?
Thanks.
posted by itchie to Technology (2 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Registration is handled by the "Microsoft Database Daemon" process and the application normally resides here:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Microsoft Database Daemon

Go into System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and delete the "Microsoft AU Daemon" item.

Log out and log in, or reboot.

When you run your legit copy you may need to re-register.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 6:26 PM on March 15, 2007


Response by poster: That solved it. Thanks.
posted by itchie at 6:28 PM on March 15, 2007


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