How to determine the date that Microsoft Office was installed ?

C

CommsOnly

Hi there,

I am currently trying to find out the date that Microsoft Office was
installed on a Laptop. I can't find any reference to it on the Add/Remove
programs. I tried searching the logs on the C\Windows\temp folder but there
are so many logs which sttar with MSIXXX that I have not idea where to begin
I am new to Microsoft and so your help is much appreciated.

Cheers,
 
S

Swifty

CommsOnly said:
I am currently trying to find out the date that Microsoft Office was
installed on a Laptop. I can't find any reference to it on the Add/Remove
programs. I tried searching the logs on the C\Windows\temp folder but there
are so many logs which sttar with MSIXXX that I have not idea where to begin
I am new to Microsoft and so your help is much appreciated.
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If the disk containing Office is in NTFS format then each file has a
"Created date" which you can see by looking at the file properties.

So, use Explorer to get to somewhere like:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

… right click on something like winword.exe, select properties, and it
might say something like:

Created: 21 April 2009, 22:34:24
 
C

CommsOnly

Swifty said:
If the disk containing Office is in NTFS format then each file has a
"Created date" which you can see by looking at the file properties.

So, use Explorer to get to somewhere like:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

… right click on something like winword.exe, select properties, and it
might say something like:

Created: 21 April 2009, 22:34:24

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Steve Swift
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cheers,
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what about if the HHD has been formated as FAT
 
S

Swifty

CommsOnly said:
what about if the HHD has been formated as FAT
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Then all bets are off, because FAT doesn't keep "created date".

You can use the "Last Changed" datestamp, but that is part of what gets
copied when you copy a file. It depends how the installer works, but I'd
bet that preserving the last change date is deliberate when copying
files from the install media to your disk; that date is one way of
knowing roughly what version you have.

It's possible that the "Last changed" datestamps of the *folders* would
give you a good idea. Mine are mostly 27/08/2009 which will be when I
re-installed. Some are 06/04/2005 which are probably from when I
installed a copy that later turned out not to be genuine. Some are
09/09/2009 which will be when some update or other was applied by
Microsoft Update.
 
S

Swifty

CommsOnly said:
Hi there,

I am currently trying to find out the date that Microsoft Office was
installed on a Laptop. I can't find any reference to it on the Add/Remove
programs. I tried searching the logs on the C\Windows\temp folder but there
are so many logs which sttar with MSIXXX that I have not idea where to begin
I am new to Microsoft and so your help is much appreciated.
Click to expand...

Also, try "My Uninstaller" which has a column for "Installed Date"
 
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