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Kas

I have a problem uninstalling 2007 Office System. I have already posted a
question on 6/7/2008 in relation to this and received some good advice from
JoAnn, who gave me the link to the Microsoft pages showing instructions as to
how this can be achieved if the Add/Remove feature doesn’t work. Many thanks
for that JoAnn and, hopefully, if you are reading this JoAnn you can help
again.

The instructions are quite clear but are lengthy and I admit to being bit
wary about tackling it, particularly in relation to making changes to the
Registry. So I have two questions:-

1. Before I do anything of this nature I always create a restore point. If
I make a mess of the changes, would I be able to correct them using restore,
and, although I will make a copy of the registry before making changes, would
I have to reinstate this from the copy rather than the restore feature?

2. I did look on the web for alternatives to the instructions provided by
Microsoft and there are packages that say they can do this automatically. Is
it worth taking a considering these?

Any help would be appreciated.

Kas
 
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Bob I

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I have a problem uninstalling 2007 Office System. I have already posted a
question on 6/7/2008 in relation to this and received some good advice from
JoAnn, who gave me the link to the Microsoft pages showing instructionsas to
how this can be achieved if the Add/Remove feature doesn’t work. Many thanks
for that JoAnn and, hopefully, if you are reading this JoAnn you can help
again.

The instructions are quite clear but are lengthy and I admit to being bit
wary about tackling it, particularly in relation to making changes to the
Registry. So I have two questions:-

1. Before I do anything of this nature I always create a restore point.If
I make a mess of the changes, would I be able to correct them using restore,
and, although I will make a copy of the registry before making changes,would
I have to reinstate this from the copy rather than the restore feature?
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No, only make a copy(export)of the keys in question. Or use the restore
point to roll it back to before you messed it up.

2. I did look on the web for alternatives to the instructions provided by
Microsoft and there are packages that say they can do this automatically. Is
it worth taking a considering these?

Any help would be appreciated.

Kas
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Make sure you have a restore point first.
 
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DL

2) Probably not as uninstall pkgs generally rely on the pkg being installed
prior to the faulting app being installed.
1) A restore pint should be fine, a backup of the registry would be a second
fail safe
Personally I use Erunt to backup my registry, which can if required be
restored from a boot disk
 
K

Kas

Many thanks

kas

DL said:
2) Probably not as uninstall pkgs generally rely on the pkg being installed
prior to the faulting app being installed.
1) A restore pint should be fine, a backup of the registry would be a second
fail safe
Personally I use Erunt to backup my registry, which can if required be
restored from a boot disk
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