Office 2010 Unable to activate Error : 0x80070005

 

Office 2010 Unable to activate Error : 0x80070005


Root cause appears to be related to permissions on disk class device objects in the registry – specifically the security descriptors related to the Security value under
HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\Properties.
RESOLUTION :


1) Use regedit and rename the Security value under

Open Registry editor : Start > Run > In Run window Type Regedit and click on OK and navigate to the following registry Key Mentioned below

HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967- E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\Properties to Security.OLD

2) Reboot the machine

3) Open a command prompt and browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14 (or C:\Program Files (x86)... if a 32-bit version of Office has been installed on a 64-bit version of Windows)

4) Run command lines similar to the following:

1. Open Command prompt (CMD) in elevated mode.

copy and paste the command line mentioned below to restart the Office software protection  platform.

32 Bit Office :

cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart

For 64 Bit Office

cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart

copy and paste the command line mentioned below to activate Office.

for 32 bit Office :
cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act

for 64 Office :
cscript.exe "C:\Program Files(X86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act


5) If all is well, running the second of the above command lines should result in a successful activation of Office 2010. To confirm this, open an Office 2010 application, go to the File tab/Help, and check for the phrase "Product Activated" near the top, right corner.