Office 365 Activation Problem (0x80070005)

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I just purchased a one month subscription for Office 365 Home Premium for 5 PCs and installed on my PC (Alienware M17XR4 Windows 7). Now whenever I try to activate my Office it fails and the error shown is - "We're sorry, something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. ( 0x80070005 )".

I still have about 25 days' subscription left.

Please tell how I can activate this.

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Anonymous

right click> run as admin and activate

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This worked for me

"In case you haven't already found the solution right click on Excel 2013 (or any other Office 2013 application) and select 'Run as Administrator' then follow the steps to activate online"

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-excel/getting-error-0x8007005-office-2013-hb-activation/1f1d9abc-9bd7-44b6-825f-c5d3eadcc9a8

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Anonymous

2014-04-01T12:56:55+00:00

Do you have any ideas on what I could do to make this work? I have tried everything!
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Anonymous

2014-04-01T12:55:39+00:00

I have repeatedly tried all of these steps to complete this activation wizard and still have the exact same issues, running as administrator, tried fixing compatibility. and continue to get the were sorry we cant do this for you right now try again later
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Anonymous

2014-03-31T10:32:18+00:00

If you right-click on each of the Office program shortcuts, select 'Compatibility' and select check box next to 'Run this program as an administrator', you shouldn't get the problem again.
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