30 May 2010

Office for mac has determined that your product key is not valid

When launching Excel, Entourage, PowerPoint, Word, you have a message :
"Office for mac has determined that your product key is not valid"

this was probably right after you added the latest update ...
This tutorial will help you Removing Office 2008 License Files:


If your copy of Office 2008 was installed with an invalid product key, or if you mistakenly used the same product key to install Office 2008 on more than one computer, you must remove the invalid product key and enter a valid product key to use Office 2008.
1. In the Finder, select /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist, and then on the File menu, click Move to Trash.
2. Select /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist, and then on the File menu, click Move to Trash.


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YOU WILL BE PROMPTED to RE-Enter your license, as used before the Uptade

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Replace the Deault Login Background Image on Mac OS X Leopard

The default nebula login background picture is great, but you're not stuck with it or any one picture as your login background. You can replace the default background with any jpg image file on your Mac. Learn how to replace the default login background image on Mac OS X Leopard

Step1: In an open Finder window, navigate to the "/System/Library/CoreServices/" folder on your Mac. Locate the file "DefaultDesktop.jpg."

Step2: Locate the new jpg image file you wish to use as your new login picture and rename the file "DefaultDesktop.jpg" (without the quotes).

Step3: Drag and Drop your newly renamed "DefaultDesktop.jpg" to the "/System/Library/CoreServices/"

Step4: Next, you will see a warning dialogue box asking if you want to overwrite the old "DefaultDesktop.jpg," click "Replace." You will need to enter your administrator user name and password in the next dialogue box to copy the new image file to the "/System/Library/CoreServices/" directory. Enter your name/password and click "OK" to copy over the existing file. To view the new Default Login Background, restart or log-out and login again to see the changes.
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Double Click To Minimize On Mac

Go to System Preferences -> Appearance -> Check box “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize


Or you can your short-cut keyboard “Command+M”
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How to Change Login Screen Apple Logo on Mac OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard

This guide will help you on how to change the login screen (the user switcher mode) apple logo to a custom image. Make sure the custom image is of size 90x90 and is in .tif format. For the best possible results, make the background of the image invisible.

1. First of all, on desktop press 'Cmd'+'Shift'+'G' and a 'Go to Folder' window will show up. Type the following path into that window and hit enter.
/System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources/




2. A new finder window shows up. Holding the 'option' key on keyboard , drag the file 'applelogo.tif' to the desktop to create a backup.





3. Rename your custom image to 'applelogo.tif' and drag it to the finder window. It will now ask you to to authenticate, click 'Authenticate'. Now, it will ask you if you want to replace the current 'applelogo.tif', make sure you have followed step 2 correctly and click 'Replace'.








4. It will finally ask for your password, type it in and hit return.






Whenever you open your mac, the login screen will show the custom image instead of the plain old Apple logo.
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