how to install microsoft works with no disc but have product number?

Answer 1

Don't understand. How can you have a product number without the program? Are you sure it isn't installed already, or did someone give you his/her product number.

If it is the latter, you won't be able to install.

I know you speak of MS Works, but I assume it will work like XP and probably moreso. Microsoft is constantly working to add security to prevent piracy. Let me quote from the WindowsXP Gigabook, by Peter Weverka.

"Windows installer makes you type the unique 25-character code that's printed on the case of your Windows XP CD. Later, the Product Activation programs looks at various serial numbers inside your PC - the processor, network card, and disk drives, etc. -- mixes them together, and produces a second 25-character code that identifies your PC. Those 50 characters, taken together, are called the installation ID.

When you activate Windows XP, you give Microsoft the 50 character installation ID.

I'm going to skip some information here -- to continue -- every time WindowsXP starts, it recalculates the 25-character code that's based on the various serial numbers inside your PC. If the recalculated 25-character code doesn't match your original code, the activation time clock starts over and it continues to remind you relentlessly, etc. etc.

All this and much more is covered in Chapter 2.

I bought this $35 book for $3.50 and shipping at www.amazon.com as a used book.

Answer 2

Borrow a disk from someone else. Doesn't matter if the disk is the original as long as you use that product number.