Re: Removing all traces of MS-Office (versions 2K and XP)

From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhingaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:59:47 -0800

For Office 2000, try both of these if you have both CDs installed:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=3A4E9862-CDCE-4BDC-8664-91038E3EB1E9&freetext=eraser2k.exe&DisplayLang=en

I am still looking for the version for Office XP - if you search google
groups and use the keywords "completely remove Office XP" you will find a
post from Bob Buckland with a reference to the file.

Aha! Found it:
Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301&Product=offxp

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Steve Painter
asked:

| After reading the various postings found for "manual uninstall office
| 2000" and "manual uninstall office xp" I was hoping that someone
| could post a definitive, explict set of instructions for removing all
| traces of MS-Office (v. 2000 or v. XP) from a desktop running Win
| XP/Pro (all patches applied). Citations for KB articles preferred
| (searched but could not find any).
|
| Maybe our clients are unusual, but there seems to be a lot who
| develop a problem where they cannot run one or more Office
| application. For example, they double click on Excel, Word, a .xls
| document or .doc document, see a splash screen and then just an empty
| system, no applications running. Monitoring Task Manager |
| Applications does show Excel/Word starting, but then it just stops
| with a silent failure.
|
| Copying the target documents to another system or opeing the target
| documents over the network does not recreate the problem (therefore
| not document, OS or hard-drive specific).
|
| All run systems Symantec NAV, live update and have no trace of
| viruses.
|
| Control Panel uninstalls followed by restart followed by re-installs
| do NOT solve the problem.
|
| Reinstalling Windows XP does NOT fix the problem.
|
| The only solution we've found is a format followed by clean OS
| install and followed by complete rebuild of all applications & data.
|
| Clearly there must be another, better solution. Please share it.
|
| Thanks,
| Steve

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