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Uninstall Office Products
For me to work at home at my old job I needed Office 97 Pro. Now I do not
need it, but I can't uninstall it without recieving message asking me to insert installation disk 1. Anyone know how I can uninstall without the disks? |
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Uninstall Office Products
You can't fully remove every piece of Office without the install CD,
unless you kept the install files, which I'm not sure was an option in Excel 97. If you want to remove Office, first delete the program files folder for Office, typically C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office. Then, you'll probably want to remove some of the Office-related registry keys. To do this, you'll need to use RegEdit. On the Windows Start menu, choose Run and enter RegEdit and press OK. In RegEdit, you'll see the hierarchical view of the registry in a Tree View on the left side of the screen. Navigate to the following keys and delete them: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office When you work with the Registry via RegEdit, all changes are "live" and take effect immediately. There is no "undo" and no "close without save". Be careful with the Registry -- if you delete the wrong key, you'll have problems ranging from minor annoyances all the way up to not being able to start Windows. Be careful. These steps will remove Excel and Word. The steps for PowerPoint and Access are essentially the same. There will still be pieces of Office left on the machine, but the steps above should remove most of it. Just as an aside, even with the install media, I don't think it is ever possible to remove *every* trace of Office from a machine. Office insinuates itself into dozens of nooks and crannies of Windows and you can never really get rid of everything. Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP 1998 - 2010 Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com [email on web site] On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:41:01 -0800, MD4589 wrote: For me to work at home at my old job I needed Office 97 Pro. Now I do not need it, but I can't uninstall it without recieving message asking me to insert installation disk 1. Anyone know how I can uninstall without the disks? |
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