Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

windows 7 - The operating system is not presently configured to run this application

  • 19-08-2012 07:50PM
    #1
    iveski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭


    New PC with win 7
    Help or advice required:

    I had a computer running vista which had all my office files, outlook emails - everything -

    A couple of days ago the motherboard just died , a tech shop got the hard drive and stuck it in a box for me, I can access this through USB on my new computer 64 bit running windows 7.

    I cant find the original office installation disk with the serial numbers etc.

    'The operating system is not presently configured to run this application' pops up if I run any program from the hard drive in the box

    Any ideas on how i can get office working again on my new computer ?
    Tagged:


Comments

  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    libreofficeo.org will handle office files for now
    it won't read the emails :(

    if you were using outlook (not outlook express) the emails will be in a large .PST file - it might be possible to open them on someone elses outlook to extract the emails (not sure which other programs can freely open a > 2GB pst)


    to recover serial numbers you can use magicjellybean keyfinder

    BUT AFAIK it only works on the registry of a working system
    so you would have to try a repair install on a copy (copy - in case you fubar it) of the external HDD in a virtual machine


    Technically speaking if you don't have the paperwork and you didn't register office then its going to be difficult to prove you have a license, also if it was OEM office then according to microsoft that copy died with the motherboard. :(


  • #3
    iveski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭iveski


    Thanks for the reply, in the meantime i got advice and actually managed to extract the product key using this one:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/keyfinder / - Enchanted Keyfinder Beta Portable- Win (9X, ME, NT/2K/XP, Vista, Win7), MS Office (97, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010), Recover key for 484 other software and counting

    I have re-installed office 2007, my question now is how to bring all the old emails into my new Outlook ?


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    look for the file named *.pst on the old drive
    - you may need to right click and take ownership or somesuch


  • #5
    iveski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭iveski


    got it - thanks for the help !


Advertisement