Thursday, August 29, 2013

Office 2010 Activation Fails with Error 0x80070190

This was odd, I just installed a volume licensed copy of Office 2010 Standard on a fresh Windows 7 x64 workstation and after opening Word or Excel the activation message comes up.  I tried activating over the Internet and continued to get failures with the Error code 0x80070190.  I then opened Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ and right clicked on Excel and chose 'Run as Administrator'.  The activation window came up and I executed it and it activated fine.  Weird, but there you go.

Reference:  full fart i norge: Office 2010 SP2 activation fails with error 0x80070190

2 comments:

mary brockmeyer said...

Thank you - easy fix, thanks to you!

Javier Roldan said...

It works like a charm! Thank you! :)