OGA Office Not Genuine Notification

[felly]

An irritating message telling me my Office Application is not genuine appears every time I try to open Outlook. Information on a website tells me how to suppress the message but I have a problem with the instructions. The first step is to run Registry Editor ie press Start and Run. When I press Start on my laptop there is no Run facility. I know there was one on my old desktop but had never noticed it's absence on my new laptop. I have searched everywhere I can think of for a Run facility but without success. Can anybody help me?

[felly]

keithg - followed you instructions and irritating message has gone :) causing no apparent problems so far. I have the three files saved as you advised just in case. Many thanks.

[felly]

Chuckfickens - I understand what you are saying but as I don't feel confident about installing software which is replacing something else I have to delete, I have taken the easy way out. I once tried changing something on my computer and lost alot of emails and photos but most importantly the only video of my favourite cockatiel which had recently died :( I have since learnt that you save photos, videos etc. but at the time didn't know it was the thing to do.

[ChuckFickens]

it's a shame you have been put in the position that you've had to keep it. open office is perfectly usable to for most aspects of office and the free mail clients are often better than outlook, there is also always the chance that illegal software contains a virus (unlikely in this case unless your son downloaded it from the internet and if he is a software engineer he should know better than to do that!)

I have reported both replies on this thread that gave information on how to bypass the copy protection purely so they are removed.

[felly]

As this seems to be getting out of hand I have texted my son and guess what - I have a genuine copy. I have looked on the Internet and apparently this problem can still occur even when you have a genuine copy.