How do I get rid of "let's get started" activation page after kms activation?

Anonymous
2016-05-17T20:42:53+00:00

I have 2 new Dell XPS 15 laptops with Win 10 Pro, OS licensed via UEFI.  I uninstalled trial office without opening it and loaded Office 2016 Pro and activated it via KMS:

Still, opening any Office app brings up the Let's get Started" page wanting me to try/buy/activate Office:

How do I stop the activation page?

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Anonymous
2016-06-16T19:36:39+00:00

Hello,

Thanks again for your patience while we figure out a valid solution for this issue. We have created an article that provides a workaround to remove the activation window message from reappearing: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3170450.

Our engineering team is working on fixing this issue moving forward but we hope that the link above will resolve this issue on your machines via this workaround.

Thanks,

Michelle V

The Office Team

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-01T10:24:33+00:00

    If the location for the step 5 in the first reply did not work use this simplified link in set 5 of this procedure and that should solve the problem equally. 

    Step-by-step instructions:

    1. Open any of the Office package (MS Word, MS Excel etc)
    2. Close the activation screen.
    3. On the Start menu, click Run.
    4. Type regedit, and then press Enter.
    5. Locate and select the following registry subkey:

    | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\``16.0``\Common\OEM | | --- | 6. Right-click the OEM value, and then click Export or File Export 7. Save the subkey with any name but preferably "subkey" without " ". 8. After the subkey is backed up, click Delete (the whole folder named OEM on the left pane) or click on the individual subkeys found on the right hand side when you select OEM and select Edit and Delete. Note selecting the OEM folder on the left side is faster and easier to do than deleting the individual 9. Exit Registry Editor

    Close Office and open again.

    Result**: The *Let’s get started page***should no longer appear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-01T10:15:37+00:00

    yes i have found a way to do away with that. after your office has been activated please follow this steps carefully to get rid of the activation pop up.

    Step-by-step instructions:

    1. Open any of the Office package (MS Word, MS Excel etc)
    2. Close the activation screen.
    3. On the Start menu, click Run.
    4. Type regedit, and then press Enter.
    5. Locate and select the following registry subkey:

    | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\``16.0``\Common\OEM | | --- | 6. Right-click the OEM value, and then click Export or File Export 7. Save the subkey with any name but preferably "subkey" without " ". 8. After the subkey is backed up, click Delete (the whole folder named OEM on the left pane) or click on the individual subkeys found on the right hand side when you select OEM and select Edit and Delete. Note selecting the OEM folder on the left side is faster and easier to do than deleting the individual 9. Exit Registry Editor

    Close Office and open again.

    Result**: The *Let’s get started page***should no longer appear.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-28T23:41:28+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-28T17:45:10+00:00

    how to get read on let's get started in office

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