Hi Thom,
It is possible that these are left over parts from prior versions (Office 2007 is v12, Office 2003 is v11 and Office XP/2002 is
version 10) but as there are also other related products that install to those folders including MS Office Live Meeting, MS Office
file viewers (a number of computers, for example, ship with a Powerpoint 2003 file viewer), add-ins and virtual printers, you may
want to do a little testing and a little tracking to determine, if possible, what the items are.
If you've already examined those folders in Windows Explorer to look for program files and dates, and cannot determine what they do
(i.e. double click a program file in those folders to see what runs, then
what you may want to is to look in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel and review what is listed as installed. If,
for example you installed a version of Office 2007 that does not contain all of the programs from an earlier version (either because
you changed product suites or because an older Office product included apps no longer in the new version) then the Office 2007 setup
program would normally leave those 'extras' in place.
After uninstalling items there you may not need or want then you may want to go to Start=>Programs and if you see items such as
viewers, etc right click on their shortcut to see if they're pointing to a file in one of those folders to help identify it. If
there is a shortcut in Start=>All Programs then it would usually be an item to uninstall rather than just delete.
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I have Office 2007 installed. The folder in Program Files contains an
Office12 folder and also contains folders ...
Office
Office10
OFFICE11
.... with 87MB of data.
Are these three folder droppings from previous releases that can be safely deleted?>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
