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<blockquote data-quote="DBareford" data-source="post: 75375">I recently was engaged to do some support at a small theatre that uses eMacs. They had apparently pirated a version of MS Office X from Limewire or some such, but were getting conflicts when multiple users tried to run Word simultaneously. I convinced them to get a 5-computer site license from Microsoft, which came with a special installation disk.When I installed it, the setup asked if I wanted to delete the older versions of Office on the hard drives, which I did. It also did not ask me for a keycode of any kind, which I found strange. THE PROBLEM IS: the conflict is still occurring, returning the message &quot;[User x] is currently using this application.&quot; I tried re-installing (and deleting older versions again, with the same result.The four computers are not technically networked in terms of file or applicatoin sharing, but are connected to DSL through a shared Linksys router. Does anyone know a way to convince MS Office that the site licenses are valid? (I think it's still finding something from the pirated version).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DBareford, post: 75375"] I recently was engaged to do some support at a small theatre that uses eMacs. They had apparently pirated a version of MS Office X from Limewire or some such, but were getting conflicts when multiple users tried to run Word simultaneously. I convinced them to get a 5-computer site license from Microsoft, which came with a special installation disk. When I installed it, the setup asked if I wanted to delete the older versions of Office on the hard drives, which I did. It also did not ask me for a keycode of any kind, which I found strange. THE PROBLEM IS: the conflict is still occurring, returning the message "[User x] is currently using this application." I tried re-installing (and deleting older versions again, with the same result. The four computers are not technically networked in terms of file or applicatoin sharing, but are connected to DSL through a shared Linksys router. Does anyone know a way to convince MS Office that the site licenses are valid? (I think it's still finding something from the pirated version). [/QUOTE]

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