I had the same problem. Locate outcmd.dat and rename it to outcmd.old. Try again.

Well, I am marking it as solved, even though nothing got solved.

It works with win98, but still does not give the serial number for office. I guess will just leave it alone.

Thanks everyone.

Correct, I did some googling too, for 2 days, but nothing, but I was wondering if someone in here might have a hack or something to get the key. I guess this is something that no one is interested in...

I have tried majic jelly bean, but that does not reveal the office 2000 Serial Key#.

I also tried keyfinder.

I have lost my product key. I am using a windows 98 PC, and it has office 2000 pro installed. I have tried several programs to recover my serial key #, but some just give me the Productl ID #, some...

Have you tried searching your computer, but with hidden folders? Maybe you moved it to a hidden folder or you made them hidden.

When you go to start > Search > type the name of the folder. Then...

Have you checked and made sure your graphics card is installed correctly? have you done any changes to your drivers or hardware?

Just try this: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

I have seen this problem many times. This software works great.

No, your computer is not fried. It's not necessary to backup your files if your going to do a repair installation of windows, since your files, songs, pictures, etc. will not delete, but if things go...

I think you can recover your data. Like I said, if you can connect the HDD to another computer with a sata/ide to usb connector like the one I mentioned above, then the data should be recoverable....

I told the admin about the software, and he did try it, but said that he go not where. He also said not to worry about it anymore since he is going to install windows NT over the current one and that...

Correct, but since this is a company, the administrator won't let me use illegal software. We have to be legal all the way. I have tried 3 so far and none of them have worked.

I know I can try...

YES. I get those all the time at work and once at home. I have found that the best software to use against those annoying xp antivirus 2008 and 2009 is Malwarebytes which can be found here...

We have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation which we forgott the admin password. The admin is the only user assigned to the machine.

I want to know, is there any free software out there that will let me...

Malwarebytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php, takes care of the XP Antivirus 08 or 09 and other malware.

Superantispyware.com free version -...

The best way that I have done it, is by using Partition Magic. I even helped my friend do it. There is more programs that you can use, but since I find Partition Magic easy (sort of) to use, it might...

Yes, but I think he is trying to avoid taking the HDD to a recovery company. They charge way to much to recover data, of course if that data is very important and can't be recreated then that would...

At work when computers take a long time to boot or load, then I use the following software and it cleans the computer up really good.

Ad-Aware 2008 home edition -...

I don't know if you saw the whole thin or not, but here are the suggestions that they give in the article.

Freeze it
Drop it
Hit it

You have tried freezing it, but have you tried the...

Yes, that is true, there is only one lens for the DVD drive. Maybe i confused you, but what I meant was to try to clean the lens of the DVD drive. The link I gave above is to a web page that shows...

Well, Like I said in my pervious post, brother in law same problem, and his is an emachine too.

I don't think changing the USB port is going to work. I have encountered this type of problems a lot here at work and the only solution I have found was to reformat the drive. Once I have reformatted...

We need more answers. Do you have both the OS HDD (hard drive) and the external hard drive connected at the same time or are you trying to connect the external HDD by itself? If you have tried both...

Here you can find at least 200 ways that might work for you to try to revive your HDD for just the right amount of time to copy your files. The most important thing is BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP. Trust...

Have you tried cleaning the lens of your CD or DVD ROM? Don't touch it, if you don't have a CD that cleans the lens of the CD & DVD ROMs, you can use a compressed gas duster can. I have had problems...

Here is a solution that Microsoft has. You might want to try it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;831426

Yup, Motherboard might be dead. My brother in law was using his, then shut it down, next time he went to use it it would not turn on. On his, it killed the USB mouse and the Keyboard too, everything...

a NIC (network interface card) is any card that connects your computer to a network.
So an ethernet card is an example of a NIC, but a modem could be considered a NIC as well as a fiber optic NIC....

If you need to scan your computer right now to check for viruses you can always use the free online virus scanner from trend micro house call. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

I as an IT...

If you still don't know how to do this go to this site. It will explain in details what you have to do.
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