Microsoft Office 2010: Fix Cannot Verify the License For This Product

No matter how much you spend on buying new MS office 2010 program once it got corrupted either you have to completely remove office program and reinstall it or change the product key,  it is like a nightmare when you open it after installation or few days after installation and you get an error that “Cannot verify the license for this product” but rather than reinstall or inserting new product key follow this trick which surely help you to reactivate office 2010 without a new license key.

What if you have done till now to activate MS office 2010-

• Re Enter CD key
• Install every single item you could select during the install.
• Removed CD key with office remover
• Remove office + reinstall office
• Repair Office Program
• Rebooted many times

With no luck ?? Then try below method to activate it.

Steps To Fix “Cannot Verify The License For This Product” Error:-

Step 1.  Open Command Prompt as administrator. ( Go to Start  and Search for CMD do a right click on it then click on “Run as administrator”).

Step 2.  In command prompt navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14.
By typing following command in cmd-
cd..   Hit Enter
cd..   Hit Enter
cd program files         Hit Enter
cd microsoft office      Hit Enter
cd office14                 Hit Enter

If you are using 64 bit version of windows then navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14.
by typing similar command in cmd window.

Step 3.  Now type  cscript ospp.vbs /act    in cmd window and hit enter on your keyboard.

It will re register your office using the same product key. After that you will get following message in cmd window.

This will activate your copy of MS Office program.

If you get an error that “Software protection platform service is not running”  then enable “Software Protection” service form Services.

Now reopen office 2010 program, you will not get any error.