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I bought from Dell a Vostro 3550 including a MS Office 2010 licence 3 years and half ago. The PC always worked fine but in the last few months its startup with Windows 7 Professional is getting slower and slower, while with Ubuntu (it is now a dual boot machine) performances continue to be good. So I decided to restore the original operating system from the recovery partition, but I'm not sure that this will restore not only Windows 7 Professional but also the legal and activated copy of MS Office I bought from Dell.
I was able to get with Belarc Advisor and similar tools the activation key for MS Office, but I would like to know if
- there are ways to check if in the recovery partition there is also what is required for restoring MS Office
- from you experience when Dell sells Ms Office with one of its PCs, MS Office is included in the recovery partition too
Last point: I went to Dell download center by providing my service tag / express service code, but MS Office is not in the list of software I can download for my PC.
Thanks in advance for any help

Some paid software is in My Dell Downloads. Office might not be in the restore partition, but as long as you have the key that came on the card you received with the computer, you can download from Office Downloads. The Belarc key might not be your individual key, but your Dell OEM generic key. That won't work. See if you have a sticker on the computer with the Office key.
Office downloads for US--
https://www2.downloadoffice2010.microsoft.com/usa/registerkey.aspx?culture=EN-US&ref=backup&country_id=US
See if you can download a copy before doing a restore. Also run a disk check to see if the drive is failing. And remember that after 3-4 years, restore to factory settings might not work at all. Have good copies of important files and all reinstallation media for programs.

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