Office registration

For Office 2010 Pro - only had this problem with trying to activate with a VLK.

If it gives peculiar errors on activation, or appears to activate but keeps asking to activate again on reboot, then activate via vbs:

a. Open an administrative command-prompt
b. Run one of the following command-lines based on your Operating System:

x86
cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act
x64
cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act


Slightly (sort of) related: Office performs a licence check whenever you start up an Office product, causing the Office Software Protection Platform service to start.  This then doesn't shut down automatically.  However, you can set this in the registry (need to create a new value):

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform

ValueName: InactivityShutdownDelay

ValueType: DWORD

ValueData: The number in seconds, that the Office Software Protection Platform will stay running for, after the most recent activity. The windows default for this is 300 seconds.

Details taken from the MS Technet forums.