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Boris
Hi,
I have recently upgraded from Office XP to Office 2007 (via, unfortunately,
Excel 2007 beta 2 which caused some problems when I removed it) on my laptop
running Windows XP Pro SP2. I uninstalled Office XP prior to the upgrade to
reduce the potential of having too many left over redundant files on my HD,
and also cleaned out registry entries I could identify as no longer being
necessary. However, I notice I have a number of old files (pre Office 2007)
in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared diretcory. Is there an
easy way of cleaning up or at least identify old legacy files I no longer
need? I am thinkning in particular of subdirectories such as Equation and MSI
Tools (no Office 2007 entry) and files like ms.cgm, ms.gif etc in GRPHFLT,
pre 2006 files in MSInfo etc... Also, I would not be surprised if there were
may redundant entries left under Wimdows\Installer but it is very difficult
to identify what they refer to - is there a list of ones that can safely be
removed? (for instance, there is a $patchcache subdirectory - is this really
necessary?).
Then of course there is that quite large c:\MSOCache folder but that, I
know, is a different issue...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes, Boris.
I have recently upgraded from Office XP to Office 2007 (via, unfortunately,
Excel 2007 beta 2 which caused some problems when I removed it) on my laptop
running Windows XP Pro SP2. I uninstalled Office XP prior to the upgrade to
reduce the potential of having too many left over redundant files on my HD,
and also cleaned out registry entries I could identify as no longer being
necessary. However, I notice I have a number of old files (pre Office 2007)
in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared diretcory. Is there an
easy way of cleaning up or at least identify old legacy files I no longer
need? I am thinkning in particular of subdirectories such as Equation and MSI
Tools (no Office 2007 entry) and files like ms.cgm, ms.gif etc in GRPHFLT,
pre 2006 files in MSInfo etc... Also, I would not be surprised if there were
may redundant entries left under Wimdows\Installer but it is very difficult
to identify what they refer to - is there a list of ones that can safely be
removed? (for instance, there is a $patchcache subdirectory - is this really
necessary?).
Then of course there is that quite large c:\MSOCache folder but that, I
know, is a different issue...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes, Boris.