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Uninstall Office 97 Pro without CD's?

Mar 14, 2006 10:17AM PST

I need to uninstall Office 97 Pro from a friend's computer to free up some hard disk space, but she does not have the original installation discs.
How do we achieve this please, without damaging registry?

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Try...
Mar 14, 2006 10:36AM PST

1. ADD REMOVE PRO (google.com) it's free.

2. Just delete Office program's home directory in Program Files.

Bob

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(NT) (NT) Bob, would my Office 2000 disc do the job, maybe?
Mar 14, 2006 11:41AM PST
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(NT) (NT) Doubtful.
Mar 14, 2006 12:00PM PST
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tried it
Dec 29, 2010 2:46AM PST

hi Bob, i tried deleting but windows does not allow me.
what do you suggest?
thanks

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When deleting.
Dec 29, 2010 2:48AM PST

We have many options such as booting SAFE MODE, the recovery console command line, booting and running UBUNTU and more.

All levels of users show up here so all apologies if I don't know where you are.
Bob

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Two ways.
Mar 14, 2006 4:13PM PST

1. Use your Office 2000 disk to install (part of) Office 2000. It will see there's Office 97 installed, and ask if you want it removed. Answer YES. Then uninstall the installed part of Office 2000 and the system is clean. Manually delete files like normal.dot and excel8.xlb, and the system is still cleaner.

2. Download the Office Resource Kit (it might be on your Office 2000 CD, by the way) and run the Office Removal wizard.
http://www.google.com/q=download+%27office+removal+wizard%27+site%3Aoffice.microsoft.com gives all info you need.

Hope this helps.


Kees

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Thanks, Kees, for that information.
Mar 14, 2006 7:47PM PST

I have downloaded ork.exe from the MS site onto a flash drive, and will install on friend's computer, then run command line Offcln.exe /a /q /r /l
This seems to be what the article is telling me, I hope.

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Office Uninstall Success.
Mar 15, 2006 1:08PM PST

Inserted my Office 2000 disc, selected Custom Install, and agreed to remove all earlier instances of Office.
Left disk in drive, then went to Control Panel -> Add and Remove Programs -> Office 2000, and uninstalled MS Office entirely.
Thanks for the help.

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(NT) (NT) Good job. Glad I good help.
Mar 15, 2006 4:49PM PST