Thanks for posting this. I have been trying to fix this on a couple Win10 Ent machines and nothing works, until I found this. I had been running system restore and delaying Windows Feature update, and it eventually re-installs.

So your regedit fix worked great. Thanks again! Was this reply helpful? Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 2 people found this reply helpful. As the person stated. The reason for the popup is due to the 20H2 build update changing user permissions to MS Office. It is unclear why MS didn’t catch that. I am sure there are a number of reasons why. Regarding the fix, it only grants MS Office permissions for users nothing else.

If you are experiencing other permissions issues. You may need to look further into the other issues and what is causing them. Computers, If its not one thing, its another. Hi, thanks for the quick response. At this time we’ve not encountered many of these issues during our company wide update, so not every update has had this issue. As I said, my only concern is that some other permission has been modified along with this but we have yet to find it, it is a concern at the moment, we’ve not had any other issue with Office and the 20H2 update to date.

The details above do not explain the change, if I could understand the process that changed the permissions I would feel a lot better rolling out this feature update. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. I have 2 solutions to follow:. First, check windows updates and run it to see if it errors out.

Windows 10 Enterprise Second, If windows updates are working just fine without error but Office keeps displaying the license popup, then do the following:. Then grant users, Full Control. Hit OK, reboot the machine. Login back in and launch word and verify the change took. Both solutions have been tested and work to resolve the issue.

Hope this helps! Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this discussion? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thank you for posting the question in Microsoft Community. As I understand you are facing issue while accessing the Office applications.

Let me help you with the issue. If the service is already running, then remove all installation traces for Microsoft Office using the required Fix-it and then reinstall Office I hope the above steps helps. If you need any further assistance reply and we will be glad to assist you.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback. This worked no more “Microsoft Office cannot verify the license for this application Thank you. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, redeem, activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member.

No changes to system, software, I’ve run anti-virus, etc. A repair attempt failed or was cancelled by the user. The application will now shut down. I hit OK – it closes.

I’ve tried repairing Office , I’ve tried uninstalling and re-installing from my original disks and also from a downloaded copy from my MS account.

Why can’t it verify and would that cause my program to behave oddly? Cursor jumps from pointer to busy non-stop in Word, Excel can’t process, when trying to print from Excel – print options jump around on page, Access locks up. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Deepa Raj. Hi Wendy, Thank you for posting the question in Microsoft Community.

 
 

 

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Hi SharelleRogers, Thanks for asking. Hope this helps. Let us know if you need anything else. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x. You can get to system restore by click on Start and typing in system restore.

You can also read more about how to use it here:. If you are running Office , then Office SP1 added a new service called Office Software Protection Platform, which will sometime require you to reactivate Office.

Type in services. Note that in order to see the ProgramData folder, you need to open Explorer and click on the Organize button and click on Folder and Search options. Click on the View tab and then make sure to click the Show hidden files and folders radio button. Now restart the computer and open any Office program. Again open any Office program and you may have to type in the key one more time. Thanks for your feedback. You run the appropriate installer program and submit the 25 character product key when prompted to activate.

If you do not have the product key, but still have a computer that the bundle was running on before that has NOT had Windows “reinstalled” or “refreshed” or “reset”, then we can give you links to tools that can extract the and earlier, but NOT or MS ” improved ” them , product key. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, upgrade and activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member.

I had to replace my laptop hard-drive and now need to reinstall MS Office Home and Student bit. Any assistance in locating an Office download link is appreciated. For more information, see Outlook is unable to start in Windows 7 or 8. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

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