Norm, we are talking 16 mb here - how much room do you have on your drive?
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Norm asked:
| Thank you, Eric, for your response. BUT -- if I DO
| download the whole thing and let the installer install
| only the parts I need, isn't the rest of the service pack
| STILL on the hard disk, only not installed? How would I
| get rid of all that unneeded, uninstalled stuff?
|| -----Original Message-----
|| While you do need to download the whole thing, the installer is
|| smart enough to only install the parts you need. No need to fear
|| filling up your disk.
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|| Thanks,
||
|| Eric Lawrence
|| Program Manager
|| Assistance and Worldwide Services
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|| This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
|| rights.
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|| ||| Again, Eric and John, thank you for taking the time to
||| respond. But I fear you have not read my discussion.
||| Whether or not to download Office service packs is not a
||| question for me of safety; it's a question of what to do
||| with all the non-Word patches on that enormous service
||| pack when Word is the only Office program I have. PLEASE
||| ADVISE.
|||| -----Original Message-----
|||| Thank you, Eric and John, for your responses. But they
|||| don't really react to my problem. Since I see that my
|||| discussion was not posted, here it is:
||||
|||| I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the
|||| Works 2002 Suite). The Office download center reports
|||| that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I
|||| don't have Office, only -- as I said earlier -- the Word
|||| 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of
|||| the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word
|||| as well as for other components of Office. My questions:
|||| Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non-
|||| Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for
|||| Word? If I DO download the entire Office SP, and since I
|||| would want only the Word portions to be installed, what
|||| happens to the downloaded but uninstalled
|||| OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard
|||| drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will
|||| take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily
|||| deleted? I'd appreciate your response. So, please respond
|||| to my (unmodified)email address:
|||| normjune23(removethis)@aol.com. Thank you.
||||
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||||| -----Original Message-----
||||| No, you don't need to download Service Pack 3. In fact
||||| there is no need to download anything if you are confident
||||| of your security system such as anti-virus/firewall and
||||| you have reasonable knowledge of computer siftware and
||||| hardware. Patches are one way of keeping Bill Gates'
||||| programmers busy.
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||||| Have a nice evening.
|||||
||||| John
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