Deleting Microsoft office.

29-03-2009, 10:30

I have deleted Microsoft Office 2007 because it was to resource hungry and not user friendly, I have reinstalled Microsoft Office 2003 but it won't run, it seems there are still some old installation files from Office 2007 on my machine, this is stopping Office 2003 from starting. How do I get rid of the old Office 2007 files so Office 2003 will run?

Cheers

Nidge.

Kymmy · 29-03-2009, 10:39

Here's the official long winded way

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218

But there are unofficial removal tools around just do a google search for them

xpod · 29-03-2009, 10:40

Glad i remembered to refresh the page this time,before posting the same link

Kymmy · 29-03-2009, 10:46

Some more links

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/U...ice-2007.shtml

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...n-uninstaller/

haydnwalker · 29-03-2009, 14:11

Have you tried just installing office 2003 in a different folder - ie c:\program files\ms office 2003\...

You can actually have both versions installed at the same time (I do) so having one doesn't stop you having the other.

admars · 29-03-2009, 16:13

at work we have Office 03 and office 07 installed on the same machine. Outlook is in the only app which won't co-exist, so if you have 03 installed and then install 07, and say to keep exisiting office, outlook will be replaced with the new one, but the other apps will co-exist happilly.

if you have Office 07 and then install 03, Outlook gets messy (i.e. doesn't work too well) but all the other apps work fine.

haydnwalker · 29-03-2009, 18:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by admars

at work we have Office 03 and office 07 installed on the same machine. Outlook is in the only app which won't co-exist, so if you have 03 installed and then install 07, and say to keep exisiting office, outlook will be replaced with the new one, but the other apps will co-exist happilly.

if you have Office 07 and then install 03, Outlook gets messy (i.e. doesn't work too well) but all the other apps work fine.

Thanks - I forgot to mention about the outlook thing

30-03-2009, 06:02

I've sorted it thankyou all, it took all day because it just wouldn't play ball. I was ready to throw this machine out of the window.

Welshchris · 30-03-2009, 06:14

Strange how u seem to feel Office 2007 is resource hungry. The only part of it i find resource hungry is Outlook but its as resource hungry as Outlook 2003.

30-03-2009, 06:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Welshchris

Strange how u seem to feel Office 2007 is resource hungry. The only part of it i find resource hungry is Outlook but its as resource hungry as Outlook 2003.

Seems slower Chris that's why I thought it was resource hungry, it also seems to takes forever to load.

haydnwalker · 30-03-2009, 08:14

Outlook 2007 does take ages to load - and do send/receive (using POP/IMAP - Exchange is fine). But once its running it seems OK to me.