Office 2010 activation fails after SP2 with error 0x80070190

Date February 12, 2014 Author By kadmin Category Microsoft Office

Office 2010 activation fails after SP2 with error 0x80070190

An unspecified error has occurred.  Your request cannot be processed at this time.  Please try again later. (0x80070190)

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Solution:

Open Word as Administrator

browse to your program folder

C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice14

right-click Winword.exe and Run As Administrator

now try to activate again and it will work

This is much easier than the command line stuff that other forums have suggested.