MSOCache

[ccrashh]

My girlfriend made the mistake of installing Office Home and Student 2007 on
her relatively old PC. As a student, her funds are limited and a new PC,
even a new HD, are out of the question. How dare you force her to store
installation files to the tune of 300Mb on her HD? Coupled with the fiasco
of Vista, I cannot for the life of me understand how you expect people to
react to such hamfisted, clumsy releases.

I don't care what your rationale is for this, all I want to know is if I
delete the crap, what happens? Will it only cause issues if I/she tries to
do a repair? I don't care if removing it means she is running in an
"unsupported" mode.

And please, refrain from the "We know better than you, so nyah" patronizing
crap normally reserved for answers on posts questioning the intelligence of
MS.

 

[Peter Foldes]

"We know better than you, so nyah"

Well if the above statement say's that you know it better then others why post here in this newsgroup which is a peer to peer newsgroup and no one from Microsoft is here to read your sorrowful whining.
First off if you knew as much as you think you know, then you would have know that she had a choice not to install that file(MSO) or delete it without consequences. Also when that file is deleted and when it comes to installing Updates,Security fixes and etc and you do not have the MSO cache installed then you will need the installation disk inserted in your computer to have these installed.

And YES we know better than you as is noticed from your ignorance as you posted.

 

[ccrashh]

No, you don't know better than me. In fact, you show a not-so-surprising
ignorance. From what I have read, there is no recommended way to delete or
remove the Office 2007 MSOCache files...not during installation (which WAS a
feature in Office 2003) nor afterwards (with Disk Cleanup Wizard). I don't
mind having the installation disks handing when I perform an update. So,
since you offered nothing of intelligence to my question/comment, I would ask
that you keep whatever meaningless opinions you have to yourself. MSO is not
a file, genius...MSOCache is a folder. Yikes. You should ask for refund
from the education system that spewed you out.

My question still stands...if I remove the cache using Windows Explorer and
then regedit to take traces out of the registry (oh my goodness I won't get
"updates"...heaven forbid) will I screw anything else up?

 

[Peter Foldes]

So you are Mr. Genius that knows all and nothing.. Anyway good luck in your endeavors and thanks for posting back and letting us know

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Wow, are you always this insulting when asking for assistance? Wouldn't a
better request be - "my daughter's system is strapped for space. Is there a
way to remove the MSOcache without consequences?"

Starting off by insulting the volunteers who answer questions (yes, we all
do this on our own time to help people who are seeking assistance) is not an
approach that I would take.

You see the type of response that you got from your post. Perhaps in the
future if you let the anger go and just post your question, the results
might be polar opposite to what you received.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, ccrashh asked:

| My girlfriend made the mistake of installing Office Home and Student
| 2007 on her relatively old PC. As a student, her funds are limited
| and a new PC, even a new HD, are out of the question. How dare you
| force her to store installation files to the tune of 300Mb on her HD?
| Coupled with the fiasco of Vista, I cannot for the life of me
| understand how you expect people to react to such hamfisted, clumsy
| releases.
|
| I don't care what your rationale is for this, all I want to know is
| if I delete the crap, what happens? Will it only cause issues if
| I/she tries to do a repair? I don't care if removing it means she is
| running in an "unsupported" mode.
|
| And please, refrain from the "We know better than you, so nyah"
| patronizing crap normally reserved for answers on posts questioning
| the intelligence of MS.

 

[ccrashh]

I assumed MS personnel read these forums...or at least monitored them...and
they would posts answers. My apologies if I insulted you by insulting the
developers/dev team and Microsoft as a whole. At no point did I direct my
"insults" to you personally nor to any volunteers who offer assistance. I do
not, however, apologize for insulting the stupidity of MS personnel nor do I
apologize to the drooler who responded to me originally.

Obviously you never get frustrated with an application, and for that you
should consider yourself lucky. And I can only assume that you never answer
someone patronizingly after they have come to this forum trying to seek an
answer after they have felt screwed over by MS.

Though, where you got the idea that it was my daughter's computer, I have no
clue.

So...to start over "Is there a way to remove the MSOCache folder without
consequence"?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I apologize - I misread girlfriend for daughter.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, ccrashh asked:

| I assumed MS personnel read these forums...or at least monitored
| them...and they would posts answers. My apologies if I insulted you
| by insulting the developers/dev team and Microsoft as a whole. At no
| point did I direct my "insults" to you personally nor to any
| volunteers who offer assistance. I do not, however, apologize for
| insulting the stupidity of MS personnel nor do I apologize to the
| drooler who responded to me originally.
|
| Obviously you never get frustrated with an application, and for that
| you should consider yourself lucky. And I can only assume that you
| never answer someone patronizingly after they have come to this forum
| trying to seek an answer after they have felt screwed over by MS.
|
| Though, where you got the idea that it was my daughter's computer, I
| have no clue.
|
| So...to start over "Is there a way to remove the MSOCache folder
| without consequence"?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Wow, are you always this insulting when asking for assistance?
|| Wouldn't a better request be - "my daughter's system is strapped for
|| space. Is there a way to remove the MSOcache without consequences?"
||
|| Starting off by insulting the volunteers who answer questions (yes,
|| we all do this on our own time to help people who are seeking
|| assistance) is not an approach that I would take.
||
|| You see the type of response that you got from your post. Perhaps
|| in the future if you let the anger go and just post your question,
|| the results might be polar opposite to what you received.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, ccrashh asked:
||
||| My girlfriend made the mistake of installing Office Home and Student
||| 2007 on her relatively old PC. As a student, her funds are limited
||| and a new PC, even a new HD, are out of the question. How dare you
||| force her to store installation files to the tune of 300Mb on her
||| HD? Coupled with the fiasco of Vista, I cannot for the life of me
||| understand how you expect people to react to such hamfisted, clumsy
||| releases.
|||
||| I don't care what your rationale is for this, all I want to know is
||| if I delete the crap, what happens? Will it only cause issues if
||| I/she tries to do a repair? I don't care if removing it means she
||| is running in an "unsupported" mode.
|||
||| And please, refrain from the "We know better than you, so nyah"
||| patronizing crap normally reserved for answers on posts questioning
||| the intelligence of MS.

 

[Alf Cavill]

In your girlfriends position, would it not be better to install Open Office?
It is cheap (as in free) and will deal with MS Office documents. Also it
takes up a little less space than MS Office. By the way I like Office 2007.

 

[Gordon]

My girlfriend made the mistake of installing Office Home and Student 2007
on
her relatively old PC. As a student, her funds are limited and a new PC,
even a new HD, are out of the question. How dare you force her to store
installation files to the tune of 300Mb on her HD?

Office 2007 will only run on XP or Vista. If your girlfriend's machine is SO
strapped for space that a measly 300 MB is such a huge problem, then she is
running dangerously near the limit of diskspace for both XP and Vista. Time
to get some more storage space anyway, whether or not the Cache is
deleted.....

 

[ccrashh]

I increased her storage space. Have to swap out and get a better power
supply if I want to put more into it (new motherboard would help too).

Yes, she is that strapped for space.

But I don't consider, with any size harddrive, 300Mb of only used
once-in-a-blue-moon files "measly'. No one, not even the great and powerful
MS, should stick 300 Mb of useless files onto anyone's harddrive.

As a previous poster commented, after the increased storage, I installed
Open Office. She's incredibly happy with it right now. I will leave the
bloat that is Office 2007 on there for a bit. Once she gets used to OO, I
will uninstall Office 2007. Thankfully.

Next step is getting her onto Ubuntu. No way I would ever install Vista on
a machine.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Why not delete the MSO cache folder since it is accessed rarely.????.