jeallen01
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As I mentioned in another thread, I found this page on Amazon appearing to offer the above as a download for £6.95 (Yes , Six Pounds and 95p!), and so I've been "experimenting" with getting that onto a spare W10 Pro laptop.
The process can be somewhat “suspicious” at times, but here is the story so far:
1st Attempt (Yesterday) - Failure
Not sure where this is going, but I was kind of thinking that I will probably get the package installed, but with the risk of a secondary “package” of some sort of spyware – which I hope Kaspersky &/or MalwareBytes will pick up and which I will then need to eradicate.
2nd Attempt (Today) - Success (?)
Switched the laptop on this morning, and it took a long time to update, and finally came up as Win 10 Pro Version 1607 (Anniversary update).
Then followed the same process to start with (with all the other machines switched off!) , but it seemed to change very quickly and did actually work.
Found out that https://setup.office.com is the genuine MS Office download site – see this from answers.microsoft.com.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_install-mso_win10/is-setupofficecomdownloadoffice-a-microsoft-site/5a4ed855-aaf2-4ad6-969f-194c1ab69cd9
BTW: I checked the status of the ActiveX Installer, and it’s still disabled, so I really don’t understand the difference between what happened yesterday and today – can only speculate that it was something to do with the changes to the OS update with Version 1607 (???).
So, ATM, it does look like this is gen way to get OFFICE 2016 very cheaply if you want it and are prepared to jump through a few hoops - and with the possibilities of something going wrong
The process can be somewhat “suspicious” at times, but here is the story so far:
1st Attempt (Yesterday) - Failure
- After purchasing it on Amazon UK, it took about 5hrs for the seller to send me a link to the download site, which turns out to be https://setup.office.com, and a Product Key.
- When I logged onto that site I had to enter my name & email address and the Product Key and then start the “Download”
- However, when I tried to do the latter (twice), I got a screen with an error message with the error code 0x3000e, which does not (after some later investigation) does not appear to be a normal MS error code. The screen also gave me the UK 08003677920 number to call.
- When I did that, I was quizzed by “someone” who wanted to know how I had purchased the product, and how much I had paid!!
- He then handed me onto a guy on another team, where, in short, I had to allow him access to the PC in question via a Citrix remote access link
- That guy then looked at msconfig and showed me that ActiveX Installer was turned off (as was a lot of other stuff) – something I later found to be common to the other PCs here which all run Kaspersky Internet Security 2017. He then offered to fix the problem – an offer which I then politely declined, telling him that I would prefer to do my own investigations, and put the phone down!
- In the meantime I had switched off the 2 other PCs which were live on the network, and investigated the m/c onto which I was trying to installed Office.
- Turned off the wireless connection
- Ran a Kaspersky (which had been updated before I started all this) Scan and found nothing
- Turned the wireless on again, and updated and ran MalwareBytes Free – again found nothing
- Turned the wireless connection off again
- Updated and ran Kaspersky & Malwarebytes on the 2 m/cs I had switched off, and then on 2x machine which had not been switched on yesterday – again found nothing, so nothing appears to have "migrated" to them (thank goodness).
Not sure where this is going, but I was kind of thinking that I will probably get the package installed, but with the risk of a secondary “package” of some sort of spyware – which I hope Kaspersky &/or MalwareBytes will pick up and which I will then need to eradicate.
2nd Attempt (Today) - Success (?)
Switched the laptop on this morning, and it took a long time to update, and finally came up as Win 10 Pro Version 1607 (Anniversary update).
Then followed the same process to start with (with all the other machines switched off!) , but it seemed to change very quickly and did actually work.
Found out that https://setup.office.com is the genuine MS Office download site – see this from answers.microsoft.com.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_install-mso_win10/is-setupofficecomdownloadoffice-a-microsoft-site/5a4ed855-aaf2-4ad6-969f-194c1ab69cd9
- So went there, and had to log in to my Microsoft account (you need one to do all this), and, having got in there, was asked to enter the Product Key, and start the download of the Office installer
- Was able to save the installer where I wanted it, but when I fired that up, I had no option as to where it would install Office - I normally partition my drives into C:\ (OS), D:\ (Applications) & E:\ (Data) – and so I would normally install Office on D:\.
(Will have to try to move it to D:\, which I should be able to do with Funduc from www.funduc.com as I managed that with Office 2010 on Win 7 Pro on another m/c).
- When that was complete, I fired up WORD 2016 and then had to go through the activation process – you appear to have the choice of the Microsoft a/c email address (which did not seem to work!) or the Product Key (which did).
- WORD 2016 starts up with a stupidly annoying Search Screen, but you can turn that off as explained here https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-office-basics-how-skip-start-screen-word-2016
– same thing probably occurs in some of the other Office 2016 applications like PPT & EXCEL but have not been there yet.
BTW: I checked the status of the ActiveX Installer, and it’s still disabled, so I really don’t understand the difference between what happened yesterday and today – can only speculate that it was something to do with the changes to the OS update with Version 1607 (???).
So, ATM, it does look like this is gen way to get OFFICE 2016 very cheaply if you want it and are prepared to jump through a few hoops - and with the possibilities of something going wrong