Remove Office XP completely

[bobo]

Any body know of a procedure to totally uninstall OfficeXP?
This information seems to not exist in the MS Knowledge base.

I am having several problems with Office XP and would like to do a
completely fresh install. However, when I do this using the CD the
errors keep coming back, along with old user data like recently used
files.
Mail merge with labels fails anytime I use postal barcodes, and Arabic
text samples appear in the Reveal Formatting task pane. I have re-set
the Language to English to no avail.
I have deleted all the folders that seem to involve Office, but there
are many and in many places.

Thanks for any INfo....
Bill

 

[Franksta]

Hi,


You can use the following information to completely remove Office (2002) XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/xp/all/reskit/en-us/
adma04.mspx

Use the removal wizard on aggressive, that should do the trick.

If you want to do it manually then the following usually works pretty well
for me:

1. Uninstall Office
2. remove / rename the following folder
%systemroot%\Program Files\Microsoft Office
(where system root is normally your boot partition, C:\ in a single
boot installation)
3. remove the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office
4. clear the temp folder
5. empty the recycle bin
6. restart the machine
7. disable all startup applications
8. reinstall Office XP

Information on how to use the registry can be found on the following
website:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=322756

this is for Windows XP and Windows 2003. If you are using a different
operating system, there are links at the top to articles for different
operating systems.

Hope this helps.


Cheers,
Franksta.