benners

I had some time to have a play and it seems your suspicions were correct. I made a script that wrote to the registry, checked the write was successfull then read and logged the key to a file. The Flag was changed to the dword value of 43 but shortly after was updated to 71. The mini setup as you call it that configures the desktop settings also configures some IE settings, this is just after Windows Media Player in the dialog box. My suggestion would be to write a batch file that adds the key and then deletes itself. Copy this to the Startup folder.

Well from the OP and he did say "i forget office license key." Therefore an assumption is made that it is already installed and he wants to reinstall. Get the key from the current install, reinstall WIn 7 and install office and use key to activate.

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I have an 11 year old boy who has recently started acting a bit secretive with his msn. He is hanging around with some questionable scrotes and despite me asking him to stop seeing them he continues to do so. They communicate at night using Windows Live messenger and I did use one of the numerous programs to log the conversations (he kept turning off the defualt MS option) on his laptop but now he has d/l an app for his ipod touch so obviously these are no good. I would like to keep an eye on him again just to make sure nothing is going on and avoid the arguments and lying that would most likely occur, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a method to record just this traffic. I have a wireless network and the connection is via a adsl modem from our service provider (PlusNet). As this is a switch the sniffing program won't work. The model is a Thomson tg585 and is pretty locked down when it comes to configuring things. I have read about port mirroring and arp spoofing but I don't think these to be do able. I know this is a touchy subject, why don't I block net access, take phone and ipod of him etc but that is more trouble as this will just force him to find another way I may noy know about. IDoes anyone know of a method to do this? Thanks