Microsoft's new "active registration" question

Razl

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I recently purchased MS Publisher 2002. After installation, the program says I must register it within the next 50x of opening it to keep it activated.

Wow! I was floored. I knew Office XP/ WinXP required this, but not a basic desktop publishing program.

My extensive list of software are all legitimate retail/OEM versions, however I don't register any of my software for plenty of valid reasons (I could fill book with the reasons why not to do it).

Is there a way to bypass/disable the need to register it? I know there's a trick with Win2K, where you modified the last three digits in the setupp.ini file's command lines, disables the serial prompt altogether. Can something like this be done for the XP generation hassle?:|
 

cornbread31

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good luck finding something to bypass the activation. i have the same problem with frontpage 2002. all i can say is i will NOT buy xp, because of this sh1t! ms has gone over the line this time!