Registering and older product

You have to contact Support directly to ask the activation code. If they declined to give it, you don't have any option but purchasing a new license.

Welcome to the Community, Rayvet.
 

QuickBooks 2008 is a discontinued version of our product. Because of this, you won't be able to register it online. You'll need a validation code to re-register your program. Intuit makes every effort to provide support for registration/licensing, however, successful registrations, providing key codes, etc. can't be guaranteed for older versions.
 

You'll definitely want to get in touch with our Customer Care Team to discuss this further. They'll be able to pull up your account in a secure environment and go over what options are available.
 

Here's how you can contact them outside of your books:

1. Go to our Contact page.
2. Choose QuickBooks Desktop.
3. Click Continue as a guest.
4. Pick your version.
5. Hit Search for something else.
6. In the Tell us more about your question: field, enter a description of what you're contacting Intuit about.
7. Press Search.
8. Select Start a Message.
   

Be sure to review their support hours so you'll know when agents are available.
 

I'll be here to help if there's any other questions. Enjoy the rest of your day!

You might want to try asking a support person to escalate the issue to a supervisor who can gnenerate a validation code.  

Hello there,

I recognize your sentiments about registering your QuickBooks 2007. Allow me to share some information about your concern.

As mentioned by my colleagues above, with the QuickBooks Desktop Service Discontinuation Policy older versions will no longer receive product updates and cannot access online services. Thus, you received the error when registering.

I suggest contacting our Customer Care Support to get a validation code to re-register the program.

Here's how you can contact them outside of your books:

1. Go to our Contact page.
2. Choose QuickBooks Desktop.
3. Click Continue as a guest.
4. Pick your version.
5. Hit Search for something else.
6. In the Tell us more about your question: field, enter a description of what you're contacting Intuit about.
7. Press Search.
8. Select Start a Message.

Moreover, I'm adding this helpful article as your reference about fixing errors when registering QBDT:  Fix license, validation, and registration errors in QuickBooks Desktop.

Please don't hesitate to return to this post if you have other concerns about registering your QuickBooks Desktop. I'll be here to lend a hand.

Any solution found for this at all???

So I am having the same issue.  I have used QB 2007 Pro for years as a desktop version.  I only used it for invoicing.  The computer it was installed on had a catastrophic MB failure.  I loaded the the OEM program and entered the license key.  I removed the HD from the computer and used it as a mass storage to retrieve my company file.  It worked fine.  Fast forward two weeks and now the computer is wanting me to register.  Will not allow me to view my file.  I contacted CS and they said they could not validate my copy as it was never registered, which is BS because I used it for years registered.  They were offering every option under the sun.  I explained to them that I did have internet where that particular computer was set up and QB 2007 will not load on a newer computer.  The CS rep kept telling me she was going to email me steps to open the file, again I repeated I do not have internet in this location.  She never even listened and what's more could hardly speak English and kept repeating her script. Lousy CS.  I have done a little research and QB is actually committing offenses against federal consumer law by not allowing me access to my purchased copy of their product.  Considering this has my financial information for my company they are blocking access to my ability to process information on my customers which is a violation of privacy acts.  Just keep after them.

So I just went through this nightmare myself - we had an old laptop which we used our 2008 QB pro (3 licenses, btw, but we only have been using it on one computer). The laptop crashed, and we re-installed QB on another computer - a desktop. Anyway, we were getting this same message and I called to register because it could not be done online and met with a brick wall. "So sorry - we no longer support and therefore no longer can register." I found this thread and got my hopes up that I just had an unhelpful rep on the phone and logged in and chatted with Jane M. got another hard stop. After much back and forth in the chat where I even copied and pasted the moderator's replies here (which infer that help is possible), she abruptly cut off the chat. Sorry not sorry - basically! I continued to click through replies in this thread and I came across a link to troubleshoot activation/license issue and found this:

[LINK: Fix activation, license, and product numbers issues]

1. Go to Help, Manage my license, then Change my license number.
2. Enter the license number as all 0s.
3. Don't enter the validation code and then select Finish.
4. Go to Help, Manage my license, then Change my license number.
5. Enter your license number. When prompted enter the validation code, and select Finish. 

I did this and inputting the zeros and closing out (through step 3) bought me another 30 days! LOL, so I figured, I'll just have to go in once a month and input the license and the following month do the zeroes, etc. However, I'm sure there's some limit there also...? Anyway, the point is, I continued with the next two steps and input the license number again, as well as the validation code (which thankfully, we had saved), and it APPEARS to be working just fine. I guess time will tell if the message to register will repopulate (giving us 29 days as of tomorrow)...But for now, I THINK it worked because previously it would prompt the registration mandate every time we opened the program (and not just once a day), but I could be remembering incorrectly. I pray it's resolved, and if it is, I hope this helps someone in the future. I can't imagine there are too many of us clinging to our old software like this but for those us who are - Godspeed!

5-28-26 I have same issue and have had not success in any installation instructions.  It appears continuously to be Intuit failing to verify license number that has been working fine until I had to re-install on my new Windows 11 computer.  Intuit has given no solutions and they appear to have blocked any others with same issue. I have been a user of QB for 30 + years and used with many clients.  NOW THIS ! ! ! ! ! Unacceptable!  But I still need the issue corrected.