

On these new ThinkPad machines, we can also perform a clean boot to determine whether background programs are interfering with Office activation:īy the way, please also make sure you run the Office applications as administrator, check if the problem will occur then. This usually doesn’t take longer than 20 minutes with a regular hard disk and takes much shorter when you have a fast SSD drive.

Right click on the Start button of Windows and choose: Command Prompt (Admin).On these legacy Windows 10 machines, do they have the exactly same version of Windows 10 as the new ThinkPad? The issue could be related to Windows 10 on the new machines, please run “sfc /scannow” from an elevated Command Prompt and reboot yourĬomputer afterwards, which helps repair the System files:

Based on the description, I understand the dialog pops every time an Office program is started on Windows 10 Pro, but the issue doesn't occur to the legacy Windows 10 machines.
