Last January I bought a new Gateway laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit,
dual processor, etc 4 gigs of RAM, 320 hard drive. It has/had a trial
of version of Power Point viewer for 25 sessions. I am still able to
view PP attachments but I always get the nag screen to enter my
product key for full, effortless viewing. I'm not buying the program
for $100-$200 and have downloaded the free viewer from the Microsoft
website. The download went smoothly and I followed all prompts
however I am still getting that @$#%!& nag screen to enter my product
key code.

Should I go into the control panel, delete the download and try it
again. I did not delete the trial version as this free version wrote
over the top of it. Is that my problem or am I destined to see that
darn prompt screen forever??

Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
appreciated.

itsjoannotjoann > wrote in news:0e33e2d8-428c-
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> Last January I bought a new Gateway laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit,
> dual processor, etc 4 gigs of RAM, 320 hard drive. It has/had a trial
> of version of Power Point viewer for 25 sessions. I am still able to
> view PP attachments but I always get the nag screen to enter my
> product key for full, effortless viewing. I'm not buying the program
> for $100-$200 and have downloaded the free viewer from the Microsoft
> website. The download went smoothly and I followed all prompts
> however I am still getting that @$#%!& nag screen to enter my product
> key code.
>
> Should I go into the control panel, delete the download and try it
> again. I did not delete the trial version as this free version wrote
> over the top of it. Is that my problem or am I destined to see that
> darn prompt screen forever??
>
> Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
> appreciated.
>



I just bought a Toshiba laptop with much the same stuff you've got on
there, and it too has the trial version of Office.

It says that if you want to load your own copy, you have to remove the
trail version first.


If you don't want to pay for the program, go here.......


http://btjunkie.org/search?q=Power+point



--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania


A good friend would drive 30 miles at 2:00 am to bail you out of jail.
A best friend, however, would be sitting in the cell next to you saying
"Man, that was f******n Awesome!"

On Dec 23, 9:06*pm, Aussie >
wrote:
> itsjoannotjoann > wrote in news:0e33e2d8-428c-
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> > Last January I bought a new Gateway laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit,
> > dual processor, etc 4 gigs of RAM, 320 hard drive. *It has/had a trial
> > of version of Power Point viewer for 25 sessions. *I am still able to
> > view PP attachments but I always get the nag screen to enter my
> > product key for full, effortless viewing. *I'm not buying the program
> > for $100-$200 and have downloaded the free viewer from the Microsoft
> > website. *The download went smoothly and I followed all prompts
> > however I am still getting that @$#%!& nag screen to enter my product
> > key code.
>
> > Should I go into the control panel, delete the download and try it
> > again. *I did not delete the trial version as this free version wrote
> > over the top of it. *Is that my problem or am I destined to see that
> > darn prompt screen forever??
>
> > Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
> > appreciated.
>
> I just bought a Toshiba laptop with much the same stuff you've got on
> there, and it too has the trial version of Office.
>
> It says that if you want to load your own copy, you have to remove the
> trail version first.
>
> If you don't want to pay for the program, go here.......
>
> http://btjunkie.org/search?q=Power+point
>
> --
> Peter Lucas * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Hobart
> Tasmania
>
> A good friend would drive 30 miles at 2:00 am to bail you out of jail.
> A best friend, however, would be sitting in the cell next to you saying
> "Man, that was f******n Awesome!"- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

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Ok, I'm at work and our system is blocking me looking at the site you
posted. I'll take a gander at it in the morning when I get home.

In article
>,
itsjoannotjoann > wrote:

> Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
> appreciated.

Try microsoft.public.powerpoint.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller

On Dec 23, 10:11*pm, Melba's Jammin' >
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> In article
> >,
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> *itsjoannotjoann > wrote:
> > Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
> > appreciated.
>
> Try microsoft.public.powerpoint.
>
>
Thanks! I'll try anything to stop that screen from popping up and
asking for a product key. ):-(

"Stu" wrote
> itsjoannotjoann wrote:

>>> Go to http://www.openoffice.org/and download the Open Office Suite
>>> for Free. It has Word, Power point, Excel, and are all compatible with
>>> the Microsoft product.

>>Well, that was bust. After all that downloading answering questions
>>and registering I get a server error. I tried several times to
>>register but I kept getting the same error message.
>>Phooey.

> No problem at all, I'm on the site and downloading the office suite
> all 147 megs. It could be they were busy, or possibly one of their
> mirror sites were down, try again.
>
> http://download.openoffice.org/contr...wJRE_en-US.exe

Yup. Xmas day and all the folks with new computers/laptops/netbooks are
snagging it.

On Dec 25, 9:57*am, "cshenk" > wrote:
> "Stu" wrote
>
> > itsjoannotjoann wrote:
> >>> Go tohttp://www.openoffice.org/anddownload the Open Office Suite
> >>> for Free. It has Word, Power point, Excel, and are all compatible with
> >>> the Microsoft product.
> >>Well, that was bust. *After all that downloading answering questions
> >>and registering I get a server error. *I tried several times to
> >>register but I kept getting the same error message.
> >>Phooey.
> > No problem at all, I'm on the site and downloading the office suite
> > all 147 megs. It could be they were busy, or possibly one of their
> > mirror sites were down, try again.
>
> >http://download.openoffice.org/contr...=mirrorbrain&f....
>
> Yup. *Xmas day and all the folks with new computers/laptops/netbooks are
> snagging it.

>
>
Okie dokie, I'll give it another try in a day or so when hopefully
they're not so busy.

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:49:10 -0800 (PST), itsjoannotjoann wrote:

> Last January I bought a new Gateway laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit,
> dual processor, etc 4 gigs of RAM, 320 hard drive. It has/had a trial
> of version of Power Point viewer for 25 sessions. I am still able to
> view PP attachments but I always get the nag screen to enter my
> product key for full, effortless viewing. I'm not buying the program
> for $100-$200 and have downloaded the free viewer from the Microsoft
> website. The download went smoothly and I followed all prompts
> however I am still getting that @$#%!& nag screen to enter my product
> key code.
>
> Should I go into the control panel, delete the download and try it
> again. I did not delete the trial version as this free version wrote
> over the top of it. Is that my problem or am I destined to see that
> darn prompt screen forever??
>
> Any help/enlightenment anyone can give me would certainly be
> appreciated.

You need to switch the file associations for .ppt files to the
newly installed viewer instead of the full blown version of (trial)
Powerpoint.

Office will always take precedence over the simple viewers for
opening the files.

-sw