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Microsoft Office 2007 is a very useful software package that contains various programmes like MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, etc for the various office and academic purposes. These document creation and data manipulating programmes come bundled in the installation file when you purchase the genuine Microsoft Office Professional 2007.

When you purchase the software CD, there will be a product activation key to activate the product in the product package. Product activation refers to the verification process by the Microsoft online server about the genuineness of the software that you are using. Go through the activation process to confirm that the program you are using is genuine. If the activation process fails, contact Microsoft chat support to help you through the process.

How to activate Microsoft Office Professional 2007

Until you activate the program, it will work as a trial version of MS Office. Once the trial period is over, you will not be able to use many of the key functions of the software package mainly the document creation. You can use the program only to open and read documents and files. Therefore, it is important to activate the product after a successful installation.

Follow these instructions to activate your copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007.

• When you run the MS Word application for the first time after the installation, the activation wizard will appear. If not, go and click on the MS Office icon displayed on the main menu.
• At the bottom of the displayed menu, you will find the ‘Word Options’. Clicking on this button will display the MS Word settings menu. Go to the ‘Resources’ option and press the ‘Activate’ button.
• The Product activation Wizard will now appear.
  

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• Give your location and enter the product key for activation, when prompted. Press the ‘Next’ button to activate your product.
• Once the activation is complete, you will be able to use all the available functions and features in the MS Office Professional 2007.

If the product activation fails, chances are you are using a pirated version of the MS Office. Call the Microsoft chat line and report the problem. They will ask you a few details regarding the purchase of your product. After you have given all the necessary information, they will confirm whether the product is genuine or not. If the product you purchased is indeed genuine, they will activate it.

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Microsoft patches are installed automatically onto the computer so that the system remains updated. There may be some files in the patch, which you may not have wanted installed but were included in the installation anyway. Such files maybe those which interferes with other programs or are simply too large.

Thus, there is a need to extract all the files from the patch before installing it directly. This way you can avoid installing unnecessary files. Though the patch comes in two different formats, the extraction process is similar for both.

You should first check the type of patch downloaded before starting the process. You can avail support from technicians using the Microsoft chat service to check for the necessary (and unnecessary) files required (or not) for your system. If you have not installed the chat software by Microsoft, download & install it for availing help from experts. In addition, the chat software has many other features like instant messaging & chat, video calling, etc. that can help you keep in touch with all your contacts.

• Visit Microsoft website and download the Microsoft patch directly.
• Select “Properties” from the right click menu over the downloaded file.
• Select the “Version” tab and go to “Other Version Information.” Click on “Installer Engine.” Check from the values displayed whether the patch is an “update.exe” or a “hotfix.exe.”
• Make a new folder in your C: drive and give it a name. You can also create the folder in any other drive, but the C: driveis the simplest option to go for.
  

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• Move the downloaded patch file into the newly created folder.
• Go to the desktop main screen, click on the “Start” button and open “All Programs” Click on “Accessories” and select “Command Prompt.”
• Enter “CD c:\patch” in the command box and press “Enter.” This will open the folder with the patch file.
• Enter the name of a hotfix patch with the “/x” button. For instance, if the patch is called “hotfixABC,” enter “hotfixabc /x.” The files in the patch will be extracted to the newly created folder in the C: drive.
• If the patch is an update patch as checked earlier, enter “updateabc /extract[:path c:\patch]“.

The above steps will help you to check if all the files are necessary for your system, and you can easily avoid the ones that are not required. Microsoft technical support can be availed any time through Microsoft chat to clarify any further doubts.

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If your computer uses any one of the Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, you would have probably got the message to update your Windows. This message comes up when Windows updates are automatically downloaded to your computer and are ready for installation. Windows update is very important for the smooth functioning of your computer. Windows update comes with many security updates that help your computer from various security threats and guard your computer. However, not all updates are installed.

Though most of the updates are installed, there are a few updates, which fail to install due to various reasons. However, you will be frustrated to find popup messages from Windows that ask you to install the failed updates. So, how do you turn this off? Before you contact the Microsoft chat support to fix the issue, follow the instructions below to delete the failed updates.

Instructions

• Click on the ‘Start’ button on the bottom left corner of your desktop and select ‘Control Panel’. You can also select control panel by typing in ‘Control Panel’ without quotes in the search window or Run window and press Enter.
• Once you are in the Control Panel window, select ‘Add or Remove programs’if you are using Windows XP. If you use Windows 7 or Windows Vista, choose programs from the list.
  

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• Then select ‘Windows Update’.
• From the window that opens, select ‘Custom’. Choose ‘Select and install other updates’.
• Find out the updates that are left to install. If you find that one of the articles do not install, select the plus sign and then expand it. Check the box next to ‘Don’t show this update again’. If there are more than one update, repeat the above step, to delete the update. By doing this, you can ensure that the remainder for this particular update will not show up again.
• Next, click on the ‘Review and install updates’ button to finish the process. This will save the settings and you will not receive the update message again.

With the above-mentioned steps, you can easily delete the uninstalled Windows Update files from your computer and be free from the annoying popup messages. If you find further troubles, you can contact Microsoft support over phone or get in touch with the Microsoft chat support team. However, make sure you follow the above steps sequentially before you seek help.

Microsoft chat configuring Messenger

If you wish to have access to fast and easy communication via the MSN Messenger, you would surely gain a lot from reading this. Microsoft Messenger is one of the most efficient ways to keep in touch with family and friends. This is a free platform available for free download and its easy operation has made it very popular among the many users of the same. This has many features for you to indulge in; texting, video calls and what not. Photo sharing and much more awaits you! This involves a simple installation procedure which even a novice can understand. After finishing with the installation, you need to configure the Microsoft Messenger for every user. This is to keep up privacy while using the Messenger, Microsoft Chat.

Guide to configure Microsoft Messenger

MSN Messenger can be configured to ensure privacy and this can be much easier with the following instructions. For any clarifications, get help from Microsoft chat.

• First step is to download MSN Messenger from the official website. If you choose to download it from the web, make sure to get a genuine one, as there are lots of bugs prevalent in the download aspects.
• Now, you need to install the software in your system to launch MSN Messenger. After the program has been installed, you would get a pop-up box with a welcome message. You would have a button here in this box, enabling you to Sign in.
• You may hit on the Sign in button. Next step is to wait for a new window to appear on the screen. You would be asked to enter your name and required password. If you already hold an MSN account, you would have no trouble to log in with the details entered.
• If you are a new user, click on the option saying, Get One Here.Now, follow the onscreen instructions to avail a new email and password, as per your requirements.
  

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• Messenger would launch, upon completion of this sign in process. Go to Add a Contact>>Contacts. You would get a pop-up wizard that gets you to add email id and other details of your desirable friends. This is useful to save your business contacts too.
• Finally, you might want to modify the contact information via Tools>>Options. You could change the tag lines, pictures and icons as desired for every contact in your contact list.

Microsoft chat gives assistance while using the MSN Messenger. The feature that follows a user friendly interface makes this Messenger very popular.

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Microsoft introduced Windows Live Messenger for users to send messages instantly. It was previously known as MSN messenger and Microsoft discontinued this instant messaging service later. The main features of Windows Live Messenger included an album viewer, offline contacts, offline messaging, various games etc.

Main features

You will be able to deny a particular user to view your online status using Windows Live Messenger 2011. It provides you an option to login and chat with different users without any interventions from any others. Once you block certain users, they remain in the blocked state unless you unblock them. Hence, you should unblock or add that particular user to the contacts in order to allow them to access your online activity.

Steps to unblock a user

Before contacting Microsoft chat support or phone support, you can follow the simple instructions given below to accomplish it by your own.

1. Once you launch and login to the Windows Live Messenger 2011, you can unblock that particular user by right clicking that user’s name from the contacts. Choose Appear online to this person and click OK to unblock that specific user. You can also unblock a number of users by performing the same steps. Else, if you are unable to locate those users from the contacts, go to Step 2 to add them.
2. Click the Inbox button that you can locate from the upper window or choose the Contacts option and click Add a Contact.
3. Enter the corresponding user email address that you wish to add and click Nextto proceed further.
   

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4. You can choose the user as your favorite contact by marking the checkbox option and click Next to move further. As result of your action, Windows Live Messenger sends an invitation request to the respective user. After the user accepts the invitation successfully, the user reappears on the contacts. Click Close to exit this process.
5. You can repeat Step 1 to unblock the same user once the invitation is accepted.

You should be able to perform this task by your own now. Else, if you are unable to perform, then you should seek help from an expert or contact Microsoft chat support team or phone support team to resolve this issue. They may take remote desktop sessions to resolve your issue if you find it difficult to perform it by your own.

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The Microsoft Network (MSN), as you all know is the email client application  released by Microsoft. The MSN messenger, which later became the Windows Live Messenger, is a Microsoft chat and instant messaging service. It has various features like the option to post offline messages and can be integrated with various social networking websites.

MSN Messenger Chat logs 

The MSN messenger like all the other instant messaging services will create a temporary file for your conversation which will expire later. But the chat history itself will be stored only if you have chosen the ‘save history’ option in the MSN messenger settings. In most cases this option will be enabled as the default setting. But if this is not the case, your chat history logs may not be saved and hence can’t be retrieved.

The chat logs are the textual records of your conversations and messages stored as the chat history of the user by the MSN messenger application. These chat logs will be of great help if you have to refer back to some conversation that took place a long time ago. You may depend on the chat logs to retrieve a data or a piece of information that was already sent via chat.

How to access the MSN messenger chat logs?

• If you have selected the ‘Save history’ option, separate chat log file folders will be created for each MSN Messenger user.
• Go the Start menu and open ‘My Computer’. Select the Local Disk C and find the sub-folder My Documents under the folder ‘Documents and Settings’.
• There you will find the folder ‘My received files’. Find the folder that has your MSN Messenger username as the file name.
  

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  Open it and find the sub-folder marked ‘History’. This is the location where all the Microsoft chat and messaging history logs of the user are stored.

• Look for the MSN chat log that you are trying to access, using the date.
• Left-click on the file to open the menu. Select the ‘Open with’ option and select one of the text reader applications like the Notepad. You will now be able to read the textual record of the MSN Messenger session you had on that date.

Microsoft has already discontinued the MSN messenger service. The application is replaced by Skype. For more assistance on the same, contact the Microsoft tech support team.

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Windows updates help you keep your computer safe as well as to run it efficiently. Once you install the updates, the performance of your computer improves and you can complete your tasks in a speedy manner. You have to switch on the Windows update feature on your computer to get equipped with latest security features as well as other valuable updates from Microsoft. You can automatically download and install the updates by enabling the automatic updates feature or you can install the updates manually.

You can find out the update status of your computer by navigating to the Control Panel if you have already enabled the automatic update feature. Else, you can navigate to the respective Microsoft website to figure out the updates for your computer and you can access the needed instructions to install these updates over there. Once you are done, you can install the latest updates to improve the functionality of your computer.

Common issues

In normal cases, you should be able to download and install update programs, service packs as well as hot fixes without any issues. Once you enable the automatic update feature on your Windows XP, you may identify the issues only during the installation time. Windows will perform continuous efforts to re-install the updates or even fails to install the updates. These can occur due to incompatible software or inability to delete the temporary files during install.

Troubleshooting steps

You can get in touch with Microsoft chat support to resolve the issue. However, you can follow these simple steps given to fix it by your own.

1. Click the Start button to bring up the Start menu options and click All Programs next. Choose Windows Update.
   

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2. Click the Review your update history option.
3. Click the red X button after locating it from the status column. You should select the error number and press Ctrl + C simultaneously on your keyboard to copy it or you can note down the number on a notepad.
4. Click Find Solutions.
5. Click the Type keywords here option and copy down the error number by pressing Ctrl + V at once or you can manually enter it. Hit the Enter key next.
6. Follow the onscreen instructions given by the troubleshooting utility.
7. Else, if you are unable to resolve the issue, navigate to the Microsoft Knowledge Base to locate the respective update error number to familiarize the resolutions.

Microsoft chat support team can provide you a personalized experience to resolve any Windows update issue. Get it touch with them if you need any additional help.

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If you are a Windows user, then it is better to know about DLLs. What is DLL? DLL is the short form of Dynamic Link Library, a file containing information, which can be shared and used by multiple programs or applications simultaneously. The Windows operating system makes use of these files very well. Windows DLLs are created by Microsoft and it is certainly necessary for the proper functioning of this operating system. They provide a mechanism for shared code and data, which is a remarkable facility in programmer’s point of view. It allows the developer to upgrade functionality without requiring re-linking or re-compilation of different applications.

However, sometimes problems may arise in DLL files too. Most DLL problems will be corrupted or missing DLLs. Fortunately, these problems can be easily repaired. Here are some useful tips that can help you to resolve these issues without going for advanced help available through Microsoft chat and call services.

Update your Windows operating system

• First, you need to click on the Start menu button and select All Programs, then Windows Update.
• Then you need to click on the Check for Updates option. Now Windows will check to see if there are any available updates.
• You should click on Install Updates. Windows will automatically install any available updates. Often Microsoft will detect common errors and supply updates to those anomalies. Even after installing the latest update, if the problem persists you should move to the next section.

Re-installing DLL 

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• First, you need to re-install the DLL and you should download the specific Microsoft DLL that is causing the error. The name of the DLL should appear in the error message. For example, explorer.dll.
• You should drag the DLL file into the C:\Windows\System32 folder. If you are having trouble in locating the DLL or folder, then you have to type the name of the DLL or folder into the Search box.
• Next, you have to click on the Start button, type Run in the Search box and Press Enter. The Run tool opens now.
• Then you need to type regsvr32name.dll into the Run dialog box and click on the OK button. You should note that the extension name.dll has to be replaced by the name of the actual DLL that is causing the error. For example, regsvr32explorer.dll.
• Finally, restart your computer to bring in the changes made.

Working with Windows operating systems is very easy now as excellent tech support is readily available through Microsoft chat and associated services.

Chat history in Microsoft Chat

Online chat has become a frequent computing activity these days. People around the globe communicate with each other through the connectivity that online chatting offers. There are a number of chatting applications on the internet. Microsoft Live Chat, Google chat, Yahoo messenger, etc are some of the most commonly used chatting applications. To chat with someone, a user first needs to add him/her to the friend list.

Why Microsoft Chat?

Like any other chat application, Microsoft live chat too lets the user chat with anyone around the globe, provided both parties have access to the application. However, Microsoft live chat stands apart when compared to other chat applications. What makes it different from other applications is the provision to store the chat history in the computer hard drive. Users can get assistance from the Microsoft chat help team in case of difficulties retrieving the chat history.

Chat History

One of the major risks while chatting is the possibility of losing the chat backgrounds. However, by changing some of the settings in Microsoft Live Chat, users can save the chat history. In the case of any unexpected system crash or application crash, the chat history will not be lost. Go through the steps given below, to get access to the past chats.

Instructions

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• Launch the Microsoft Live Chat application.
• Navigate to the “Menu” and click on it. This will display a drop down menu.
• Click on “Application” from the drop down list. You will find another window opening on the left side of the window. Select the message choice and check. Check whether any of your default settings have been changed automatically, or by someone else.
• Navigate to the address bar, where you can find the conversation list, along with the list of your last contacts. You can pull up the chat details from here also.
• Open the folders that contain the documents. Enter the log in credentials if being prompted. Navigate to the history to find old chat details. You can zoom in on the chat in a new window, using the option provided.

The post above explains the procedure to retrieve the chat history in Microsoft Chat. In case of any issues while executing these steps, contact a software expert from the MS tech support teams.

Microsoft chat support to recover login credentials

It is important to create a Windows Live ID while creating an Xbox LIVE account. You can do this by typing the email address and password in the specified field. With this Windows LIVE ID, users can get access to the account settings on Xbox.com. This alternative feature will let the users retrieve their gamer tag in order to create a new console. However, users might forget the Windows LIVE ID over time if it is not used often. Nevertheless, you can retrieve your log in credentials to Windows LIVE ID with the utility offered by Microsoft.

Go through the below steps to recover your log in credential to Windows LIVE ID in case you have forgotten them.

Steps

• Launch your Xbox LIVE account and enter your log in credentials to access.
• Navigate to the Guide button which you can find on your controller and click on it. This will open the home menu on the screen.
• Scroll down the pop-up menu, towards the settings.
• You can find a list of settings options. Select account management. The pop-up menu will be closed upon the display of the account management.
• From the account management menu, highlight Windows LIVE ID.
• Go to the right-hand pane of the menu and note your Windows LIVE ID email.
  

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• Now go to Xbox.com and click on the Log In link which you can find at the top-right corner. You will be directed to a page where you can find the fields to enter the sign in details of your Windows LIVE ID.
• Go to the forgot your password link in blue, and select it. A new page will be opened now. You can find the steps to recover your Windows LIVE ID log in credentials (password).
• Type your email address and security characters in the specified field. Select the Continue option.
• You will be left with two options now (Resetting the password via email, or answering the secret question). Choosing the option Reset password via email will send you a link to the given email address. You can then click on the link to recover your log in credentials. The latter option (answer the secret question) will reveal your password directly upon answering correctly the secret question.

If the above steps didn’t help you recover your log in credentials to Windows LIVE ID, you can avail the online support from Microsoft chat. The customer support agents over at Microsoft chat support will assist you with the retrieval.