You can bypass Microsoft's involvement altogether. No online service or telephone activation required. It turns out that a tool posted on Reddit nearly a year ago can pull the installation ID from your Windows XP install and generate the matching confirmation ID for you, too. If you want to activate Microsoft Word 2013 or 2016, you can use your Microsoft account. Tap on Activate Product Key button and follow the instructions and enter your 25-character product key to complete the process. (And it seems inevitable that Microsoft's phone line will one day shut down, too, rendering that entire method permanently kaput).Ī blog on lays out this whole saga and the 'new,' much easier solution. Open Word application and go to File->Help menu.
Phew! That's a convoluted process, but it's now also a dead one, because the online service Windows XPKg pointed to for getting an installation ID is now offline. But that product key is only enough to get you an installation ID, which you need to punch into Microsoft's telephone activation service to get a confirmation ID that can be used to finally activate your dang computer. It's a keygen that can generate endless product keys for XP. For years now the go-to way to activate a fresh Windows XP install relies on a tool called WindowsXPKg, available on Github.
