RE: I uninstalled Office 2007 Trial

Why does everyone work from the position that I must have an illegal copy of
Office. I think I did have booklets saying "Distribution with New PC".

Microsoft verified my Office 2000 before allowing the 60 day free trial, so
they believe my copy legit.

The only positive idea here is to restore in "Safe" mode. How do I do that?

In the Add/Remove list, I have "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional"
165MB, and "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Disc 2" 198MB. But I cannot find
these names or sizes with a search of C:\ but they might prove I own the
programs.

I am offered the option to Browse... when asked for the original discs, but
I don't know where to browse to. Apparently having the source on the hard
drive is expected.

How do I find these?

"Travis" wrote:

I uninstalled my trial version of Office 2007 on both my machines. Now I
cannot run Access or Word or Excel on either machine.

Both computers XP Home w/SP3. One machine Office 2002, the other 2000.
Trying to run on either machine gets "Preparing to Install".

Taking only the desktop for now, I then get "The feature you are trying to
use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available. Insert
the 'Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional' disk and click OK."

The desktop is a PC clone, and the shop I bought it from did not supply
disks. They are now out of business, but the software has been confirmed to
be genuine.

So I don't have any disks. I immediately tried a System Restore, but I get
a message that my machine has not been changed, pick another restore point.
I'm back 2 months, with updates from Microsoft, and it won't restore.

If I cancel install and try to run Access, I get a message "An error
occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you like
to repair this feature now?" A NO response gets "Selected collating sequence
not supported by the operating system." Of course a YES response gets me
back to the installer.

Any way to get my old Office programs working after trying Office 2007?
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Travis
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