Have the product key, but don’t know the MS account that was used to install

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My customer purchased Office 2013 and someone created an MS account so it could be downloaded and installed, but the customer never kept track of the account credentials (e-mail address and password). The hard disk just failed – Windows will not boot but the data is readable – and a new PC was purchased. My customer wants to reinstall Office 2013, but I’m stumped about how to do it. I contacted MS service but, without the e-mail address of the MS account used to download Office 2013, they can’t help.

Is there any way to recover the MS Office account e-mail address from the registry or hard drive? If not, is there any way to install Office 2013?

TIA and regards, AAronoff

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Perhaps PcMover software would copy the install and activation of Office to the new computer?

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Thanks for your reply. According to the Laplink PCmover web site, it should work. However, I don’t currently own PCmover and have never ever needed it before, so it’s not worth the purchase price for this single use. Still, I appreciate the good idea.

I’m looking, then, for a way to install Office 2013 without purchasing additional software.

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It doesn’t specify that it supports MS Office 2013 (only 2000 – 2010) but some online users have indicated nirsoft’s free ProduKey v1.97 can retrieve the license key for Office 2013.

Another free license finder that might work is LicenseCrawler

Finally, there’s the free Newt Network Inventory from Komodo intended for official hardware/software inventory that’s “suppose” to be able to retrieve all the software licenses from a system.

 

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Thanks for your reply.

As I specified in my first post, I have the license key. I don’t know the Microsoft account that was used to register and download Office 2013.

I tried Nirsoft’s ProduKey and it didn’t find the Office 2013 product key (which, again, I already possess) much less the MS account that was used to register it.

The challenge is to identify the e-mail address used by my client for the Microsoft account that was created to register the product key and download the Office 2013 program installation files.

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AAronoff wrote:

The challenge is to identify the e-mail address used by my client for the Microsoft account that was created to register the product key and download the Office 2013 program installation files.

As you have the license key, I don’t think you need the original Microsoft account to proceed at http://www.office.com/setup

Alternatively, you could use the ISO download tool at HeiDoc.net

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AAronoff wrote:

My customer purchased Office 2013

Your customer should have received an email with a receipt for his purchase and other details.

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That e-mail is no longer available and the account that received it is unknown.

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AAronoff wrote:

As I specified in my first post, I have the license key. I don’t know the Microsoft account that was used to register and download Office 2013.

As of February 28, 2017, you can no longer download and install Office 2013 from a Microsoft Account.

If you have the license key, then all you need is a copy of the Office 2013 ISO and, after installing it, simply activate it using that license key. It does not have to be associated with a Microsoft account!

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Thanks for your reply, which solved the problem. A 2 GB ISO can be downloaded here from Microsoft. As you stated, it requires a product key for the installation but does not require a MS account.

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Your link produces this message when clicked on:
File not downloaded. Potential security risk.

I’m using Firefox 110.0 browser.

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The link is http://, not https://
Do you have https-only mode set in Firefox Preferences?

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PKCano wrote:

Do you have https-only mode set in Firefox Preferences?

HTTPS-Only Mode is not enabled.

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I had no problem with the download. I do not have https-mode enabled.
Check you add-ons. You may be blocking it.
Shows clear on VirusTotal.

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The link resolves to the .IMG file. When I click on it in Firefox 109.0.1, the file is immediately offered as a download.

Sorry about the insecure protocol link; HTTPS works, too.

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I have changed the link to https.

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