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Reactivating Office after hardware upgrade—what tool?

Asked by Frank Polter at 7:39am on May 28 2025

Swapped out my motherboard and now Office wants a new key. I had a KMS tool before but lost it when I reinstalled. Should I go with KMS Auto Activator this time or is KMS Pico better for reactivation situations? Just want Word and Excel running again without issues.

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at 12:05pm on Jun 1 2025

Swapped out my motherboard and SSD recently, and Office immediately threw activation errors like it was a totally different machine. I didn’t want to go through account recovery or deal with Microsoft phone support, so I gave kms activator a go. It ran clean, didn’t alter any of my existing files or settings, and the reactivation hit instantly without forcing a reboot or rollback. All my saved templates and recent docs opened like nothing had ever been broken. It saved me a ton of time and frustration right in the middle of a project.

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