Office 2000 and Windows 2000 upgrade issues.

[J Davis]

I have recently upgraded several machines from Windows 98SE to Windows
2000. After the upgrades, Office 2000 has given me fits. I can run
the Office suite normally as long as I am logged in as the "main" user
of the machine. I didn't configure these machines origionally, so I'm
not sure how the office install was done. Anyway, when I log into
these machines as a different user, it wants me to insert the Office
disk, and when I do it says it is invalid. I have read thousands of
posts about the Windows installer, tried that. I have uninstalled as
the one user I can (the main user), but I still see it installed as
other users. When I try to uninstall as the other users, (including
local Admin) it wants the disk and tells me it isn't valid. Also
tried copying the disk 1 completely to my hard drive and running from
there, no dice.

I have tried to delete all registry entries for the users that still
show office installed. No luck. I have tried running the Office
eraser program also.

Basically, I want to completely remove all installs of office, but I
can't. I have even tried the remove all traces crap from the
microsoft side, but that doesn't work either. I know I have the
original media, so it is killing me.

Anybody know how/what to remove from the registry that associates the
media? Data1.msi is not valid..... I want to poke myself in the eye
with a stick.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
jd

 

[kimf]

Is a format of your hard drive too severe? If you haven't
got too much to wipe off it could be the quickest
solution!