Removing Office 97 from Windows XP Home

[Bob Taylor]

Greetings All,

It appears that I have a bad installation of office 97 on windows xp
and I need to remove it. Windows Add or Remove Programs
Change/Remove brings up the Office 97 Professional set up screen - the
same you get from the cd. This gives no option for removing anything
at all.

I found an article which seems relivant -

OFF97: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office 97 on Windows XP,
Windows Me, and Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254250

The article describes how to clean up After doing a Remove All, but
not indication how to do the Remove All.

I am stumped and will be grateful for any help.

Bob Taylor

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Do you still have the installation disk? Then you can run setup from there
and choose to remove it.

Otherwise, the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility might help you out as well;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301



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[R. McCarty]

Try re-installing ( overlay to same destination ). Then afterwards you
should be able to run Setup.Exe and choose either Add/Remove Office
components or remove entirely.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

It all depends on why you would want to uninstall Office97. If you want
to install a later version like Office 2003 or Office 2007, then these
programs will allow you to uninstall the old versions. Have you tried
using trial version of Office 2007 to do the job for you? Once you have
uninstalled office 97, you can then uninstall Office 2007 as well.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[Bob Taylor]

Do you still have the installation disk? Then you can run setup from
there and choose to remove it.

I have run the installation disk and it gives no option for uninstall.

It first allows to change the folder for C:

Then searches for installed components, then gives three buttons:
Typical, Custom, and Run from CD Rom

It then gives a list of components with check boxes, some checked,
some grey, some unchecked and two buttons
Select All does just that and Change Options which opens a list of
subcomponents

Nowhere is there any hint of how to uninstall or remove anything.

I have been using word 97 for years and I guess I never needed to
uninstall it, although I have had to reinstall it often enough.

Let me repeat - I really only need to uninstall outlook which is
causing the problems.

I will have a look at the Installer CleanUp Utility

Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards, Bob Taylor
philologos at mindspring dot com

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I actually only need to get rid of Outlook which is causing problems.

In the change dialogue, can you uncheck Outlook?