Extend Microsoft Office 2010 trial of 30 Days to 180 Days

Microsoft has been giving the feature to extend its Windows OS and Office softwares trial period. This process is termend as REARM. Means reload the trial peirod again. This is perfectly leagal since we are not modyifing any code to do so. Its the reuse if the shipped feature that Microsoft provides.

Follow the below steps to REARM the Office 2010(or 2009) once your 30 days trial is expired.

1. Open command prompt in Admin mode as shown below.

2. Enter the full path of OSPPREARM in the Command Prompt. Generally, it is located in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform" folder (where “C” is your Windows drive letter).

Now, type the full path of the OSPPREARM file in theCommand Prompt and hit enter.

3. In case of successful rearm you get the above message 'Microsoft Office rearm successful'.

4. You are done! Note that you can use this command for a maximum of five times and when you try the command for the sixth time you will see the following error.