Moving Office 2000 to a Differrent Drive

[Bill Jackson]

I would like to move my entire Office 2000 suit from C drive to E drive. I
was considering uninstalling Office 2000 in its entirety using the
Add/Remove function in WindowsXP. Then I would reinstall Office 2000 on my E
drive. Is this the best approach to use? Are there any special precautions I
should be aware of should I proceed with this approach? Would I have to
reregister Office 2000 if I proceed along this line?

Can I simply move Office 2000 from C drive to E drive? Would this negate the
need to have to reregister the program all over again? Are there problems
with this approach.

The reason for all this is that I have only about 19% free space on my C
drive, while I have 89% free space on my E drive. Office 2000 is taking up a
lot of this space.

 

[Don MI]

I would like to move my entire Office 2000 suit from C drive to E drive. I
was considering uninstalling Office 2000 in its entirety using the
Add/Remove function in WindowsXP. Then I would reinstall Office 2000 on my
E drive. Is this the best approach to use? Are there any special
precautions I should be aware of should I proceed with this approach? Would
I have to reregister Office 2000 if I proceed along this line?

Can I simply move Office 2000 from C drive to E drive? Would this negate
the need to have to reregister the program all over again? Are there
problems with this approach.

The reason for all this is that I have only about 19% free space on my C
drive, while I have 89% free space on my E drive. Office 2000 is taking up
a lot of this space.

Uninstalling and the re-installing is the only way to do what you want. Not
all versions of Office 2000 had a required registration {pre-activation
version of the current activation}. Whatever was required before will be
required when you re-install. Should be not problem even if you must.

When you uninstall Office 2000 you will loose your settings but your
documents should remain. Even so, a backup of documents would be wise. Even
when you re-install on a new drive, some files will by default be installed
on your primary drive.

Don

 

[Gary Smith]

Uninstalling and the re-installing is the only way to do what you want. Not
all versions of Office 2000 had a required registration {pre-activation
version of the current activation}. Whatever was required before will be
required when you re-install. Should be not problem even if you must.

When you uninstall Office 2000 you will loose your settings but your
documents should remain. Even so, a backup of documents would be wise. Even
when you re-install on a new drive, some files will by default be installed
on your primary drive.

Office 2000 includes the Profile Wizard, which can be used to save and
later restore your settings. It probably won't preserve everthing -- I've
never seen one that did -- but the result will be a lot better than
starting from scratch.