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Unable to uninstall Office 2007 Trial or Office 2003

May 6, 2007 9:00AM PDT

I unfortunately installed the trial version of 2007 professional. I decided I would rather have 2003 and bought it off of Amazon. I could not get it to uninstall so I installed 2003. Now I am unable to uninstall either program using Add/Remove Programs. I want to keep the Office 2003 Professional but remove the Office 2007 trial. Can anyone help? Thanks! Linda

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No easy.
May 6, 2007 9:21AM PDT
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(NT) the problem is I am not able to uninstall it
May 6, 2007 10:09AM PDT
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Then I can't help.
May 6, 2007 11:00AM PDT

The link I noted was how to manually remove it. Find a friend and be sure to supply that link so they don't have to look for it.

Bob

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Unable to uninstall office 2007 trial
Dec 21, 2007 5:32AM PST

Hello,

I had the same problem and......I fixed it.
Download the program Revo Uninstaller, this will take care of the problem.

Click on one of the Office programs,(I did Access) and click uninstall.
After about 20-30 minutes the whole Office 2007 is gone.
Restart and that's it.

During the uninstall you can NOT use the computer for anything!!!!

Greetings and good luck
Dutchmex

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I'm also unable to uninstall office 2007
May 26, 2008 7:26PM PDT

You said you clicked on 'Access' . Where did you do that in c:\programs ?? or somewhere else ?

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Re: uninstalling office 2007
May 26, 2008 7:51PM PDT

Access is one of the programs in the Office suite (like Word and Excel). And I'm sure he clicked that program (but you can use another one, of course) in the Installer Cleanup program he mentioned.

Kees

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Unable to uninstall Office 2007
May 27, 2008 12:20PM PDT

This fix is courtesy of the guys from HP in Bangalore and worked a treat from my notebook running Vista. I was able to easily uninstall MS Office 2007 Trial version and reinstall MS Office 2003.

1. Backup any critical files.
2. Do a System Restore. (in my case I'd just purchased a new Notebook
so my restore was to the original factory settings.)
3. In Control Panel open 'User Accounts'
4. Select 'Turn User Account Control on or off'
5. Uncheck the 'user account control'
6. Click OK
7. Now all the MS Office 2007 programs can be uninstalled in
Control Panel

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That's an interesting trick.
May 27, 2008 5:02PM PDT

Microsoft advises to have UAC on for safety reasons, and that's the default setting. It's one of the cornerstones of Vista safety.

It's ironic if you need to uncheck it to be able to uninstall the trial of their latest (Vista compatible) Office suite.


Kees

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Unable to uninstall Office 2007
May 28, 2008 7:32AM PDT

I agree with you Kees. I guess you can always re-enable the User Settings after the uninstall.

It's interesting to note that the guy at Microsoft Help wasn't able to help me to uninstall - just told me that the original operating system must have been installed incorrectly.

Good job HP knew what to do.

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Quite a few knowledgeable members on these forums
May 28, 2008 7:45AM PDT

recommend having UAC off. I wouldn't hurry to switch it on again.

Kees

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Trial Office 2007 on Vista running laptop
Jan 9, 2009 4:10AM PST

I tried the recommended fix(By HP)(New HP laptop running Vista)
and get this message
"The language of this installation is not supported by your system"
which is what I got when I tried a normal uninstall.
Why would HP put garbage like this on a computer?
I spent three days in HP chats to no avail.
The Microsoft help site offer instructions that are more confusing then helpful.

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Try:
Jan 9, 2009 4:19AM PST
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UAC???
Jun 9, 2009 3:32AM PDT

I do not understand what you mean.
Having a TERRIBLE time uninstalling Office 2007 trial and WANT IT OUT!!!!!

Thanks for any help.

EA1579

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Re: UAC
Jun 9, 2009 6:38PM PDT
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Wish to Uninstall Office 2007 trial and reinstall Office 200
Jun 26, 2009 11:22AM PDT

I want to uninstall Office 2007 because it has locked me out of Office 2003. When I go to Add/Remove, I am unable to remove application. PLEASE ASSIST THANKS

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Uninstalling office 2007 Trial
Oct 8, 2009 1:30AM PDT

Hello,

Thank you so much for the adivce, I have been trying for days to get rid of the trial version with no success. I followed your instructions, and the revo uninstaller did the rest, many thanks again

Mike

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Uninstall Office 2007 when Language is not supported
Oct 12, 2009 4:33AM PDT

Following threads I got to Microsoft's web page, they will do it for you. I run XP and can't say that it will work for Vista, but here is the link I used. They give you a choisce of "Fit It For Me" which is what I used and OMG it's finally off my computer!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971179/#FixItForMeAlways


I hope this help others, who like me have had a hell of a time removing this nightmare. Never again will I do a FREE Trial by Microsoft.

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The Fix It For me solution
Oct 27, 2009 7:09PM PDT
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Fix it for me
Jan 25, 2010 1:24AM PST

It worked! And it doesn't appear to have caused any problems with Office 2003.

Thanks for the tip!

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great post ,, I had the same Micro--- hell problem ---
Apr 25, 2010 4:02PM PDT

yes I could not wait to get Microsoft office 7 off of my system,,,,

thank you for the help ---- it really helped as i could not get this thing off my system --- I guess they think it makes people like us
like their product more,,,,???? they have great computer logic ,, but real people logic and real customer service mircosoft move that idea somewhere far far away cann't wait for google to come out with an operating system ..... enough is enough ,, bad product after bad product ,,, and worse and worse customer support ha ha ha can't wait to say good bye ,,,,,,,,,, or apple/ mac here I come just have been afraid to make the change over,,,,,,,,,,, but I have hardly ever herd a mac person complain about their os system ,,, anyway thanks for all the help ,, I down loaded the program revo uninstaller and it finally removed office 7 from my system ,,, sorry for going on and on but this is common for windows os owners to have suck macro problems with their system once the problems start. thanks alot

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Unstaling Trial microsoft 2007
Feb 6, 2010 9:38AM PST

ok this is the eaziest way to Uninstal it, just click on the link below and look for "Microsoft Fix It" after you find it click on that and instal it after you instal it follow the instruction on how to uninstal trial microsoft 2007 hope that helped

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Uninstaling trial microsoft 2007
Feb 6, 2010 9:44AM PST

SORRY DID NOT POSTED THE LINK ON MY PREVIOUS POST
ok this is the eaziest way to Uninstal it, just click on the link below and look for "Microsoft Fix It" after you find it click on that and instal it after you instal it follow the instruction on how to uninstal trial microsoft 2007 hope that helped


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971179/#FixItForMeAlways

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Fix it for Me by Microsoft
Feb 7, 2010 5:08AM PST

I tried that and it didn't remove all of it so a computer professional friend of mine told me about this software that is FREE and RATED 5 STARS by CNet to remove ANY software and it's hidden files once and for all. Most programs leave hidden files behind, this finds them.

Check out http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

It works great.