Re: Problem uninstalling preview version of Office 2007

See http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/79 for steps on how to remove Office 2007 manually.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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"frogman_grogman" <frogman_grogman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:66F2D538-0D29-4930-BB5C-12C0A2CF40FE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

"Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]" wrote:

> Clean up the registry entries for all pre-b2 products using the Windows
> installer cleanup tool (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/en-us) and
> delete the program files\microsoft office\office12 directory and rerun
> setup.
>
> hth
> g
> "Hamptpnbeach" <Hamptpnbeach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A977DFA1-31D1-4FA0-8A12-6840ECD9A85F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I have an earlier preview version of Office 12 installed, and the beta 2
> > installer asks me to uninstall the preview version first.
> > When I go to add/remove programs to try and remove it, I get a dialog box
> > with the following error:
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Catalyst Help
> > /? show help
> > /config <config file> - specify a specific config.xml file
> > /uninstall <product ID> - uninstall a product
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> > Apparently I have some registry corruption and the installer doesn't know
> > how to uninstall the preview version.
> > Any pointers ?????
>
>
> Windows install clean up tool is absolutely the dogs ? after trying to look for help on uninstalling the office 12 beta looking on this forum has helped me no end thanks for you're help much appreciated Mr Hines....

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