Windows Activation/validation problems affect NOTHING other than Windows.
Installing Windows ONLY installs windows and its few included applications (unless installed from the manufacturer's Recvoery media)
You need to reinstall all the other programs you previously had.
It sounds as though you ran past the 30 trial period and entered limited functionality mode. I don't know exactly what functions are limited.
There's a tutorial or a post that describes the mode and what to do, I am still looking for it.
In the mean time, see if Office is still on your C: drive in Program Files. If it is, the correcting the limitied function mode might bring it back to life 0 I don't know yet - so just look.
elbygump: After you installed Windows, did you install all the other applications?
I think there might be some confusion.
If you installed Office after you re-installed Windows and Office was working until you got the Not Genuine, please let us know.
Other wise NoelDP is on the right track.
Slartybart: I did install Office after you re-installed Windows and Office was working until I got the Not Genuine. It is very strange. Even the Norton anti-virus is gone. Not on my C drive.
Have you by changce used System Restore to go back to a time before you installed the applications?
not since I put in the new HD
Curiouser and curiouser.
Programs that you expected to be on your C: are not present drive even though you installed them after you re-installed Windows. That's very odd.
Try searching for Norton or Office. I've fat fingered explorer more than once in my life and moved a folder by mistake. If you find them someplace else, we'll have to figure out the best recovery. The easiest is to re-install what you're missing, but let's see what you find.
Bill
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Very odd - it sounds as if your system reverted to an earlier time.
Do tapplications folders exist in either
c:\Program Files
or
C:\Program Files (86)
??
Have you been chaning your Profile/User account at all?
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