How to Uninstall Office 2000 when Office Setup shows "invalid patch" message

[Ken Leonard]

Howdy;

I would like to uninstall Office 2000 from my Win XP system.

But the upgrade to XP broke the Office 2000, SR, SP, etc.
patch/install/whatever data.

Is there some way to force the Office (de)Installer to run?

Is there some other way to thoroughly/correctly uninstall Office 2000
from Win XP?

Regardz,
Ken

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Ken Leonard
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[Richard D. Papot]

Hello, folks,

Like Ken, I'm having the same problem - MS has posted Windows Installer
Cleanup utilities for all flavors of Windows to accomplish this EXCEPT
WinXP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dick Papot

 

[Corse]

Howdy;

I would like to uninstall Office 2000 from my Win XP system.

But the upgrade to XP broke the Office 2000, SR, SP, etc.
patch/install/whatever data.

Is there some way to force the Office (de)Installer to run?

Is there some other way to thoroughly/correctly uninstall Office 2000
from Win XP?

Regardz,
Ken
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Nope. Can't be done. I've tried.


Corse

 

[Stu Davis]

If you installed Office 2000 from disk you could try re-installing it. Then
uninstall.

Stu Davis

 

[Ken Leonard]

Howdy!

Well, you see, the interesting thing is that the in-installer and the
re-installer and the change-installer and the un-installer are all the
same program and they all rely on the same stuff in the registry and
when the registry info is busted so that the un-installer won't run,
well, then, the re-installer and the change-installer and the
in-installer won't run, either.

Kinda like getting all four feet stuck on the tar-baby!

Ken

If you installed Office 2000 from disk you could try re-installing it. Then
uninstall.

Stu Davis

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Ken Leonard
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[Stu Davis]

Well, then, how about freshening your OS Install by reinstalling over your
existing OS!

Stu

Howdy!

Well, you see, the interesting thing is that the in-installer and the
re-installer and the change-installer and the un-installer are all the
same program and they all rely on the same stuff in the registry and
when the registry info is busted so that the un-installer won't run,
well, then, the re-installer and the change-installer and the
in-installer won't run, either.

Kinda like getting all four feet stuck on the tar-baby!

Ken

If you installed Office 2000 from disk you could try re-installing it. Then
uninstall.

Stu Davis

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Ken Leonard
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[Ken Leonard]

Well, installin WinXP is what broke my system (several things, not
just MSOffice installation data) in the first place.

Now that everything except MSOffice is working I'm reluctant (that's
an understatement!) to let the fox back into the chicken coop

Ken

Well, then, how about freshening your OS Install by reinstalling over your
existing OS!

Stu

Howdy!

Well, you see, the interesting thing is that the in-installer and the
re-installer and the change-installer and the un-installer are all the
same program and they all rely on the same stuff in the registry and
when the registry info is busted so that the un-installer won't run,
well, then, the re-installer and the change-installer and the
in-installer won't run, either.

Kinda like getting all four feet stuck on the tar-baby!

Ken

If you installed Office 2000 from disk you could try re-installing it. Then
uninstall.

Stu Davis


Howdy;

I would like to uninstall Office 2000 from my Win XP system.

But the upgrade to XP broke the Office 2000, SR, SP, etc.
patch/install/whatever data.

Is there some way to force the Office (de)Installer to run?

Is there some other way to thoroughly/correctly uninstall Office 2000
from Win XP?

Regardz,
Ken
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Nope. Can't be done. I've tried.


Corse

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Ken Leonard
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[Ken Leonard]

Howdy;

I would like to uninstall Office 2000 from my Win XP system--so I can
re-install it so all the parts will work again.

The upgrade to XP broke the Office 2000, SR, SP, etc.
patch/install/whatever data.

Is there some way to force the Office (de)Installer to run?

Is there some other way to thoroughly/correctly uninstall Office 2000
from Win XP?

I can't do over-install because the in-installer and the re-installer
and the change-installer and the un-installer are all the same program
and they all rely on the same stuff in the registry and when the
registry info is busted so that the un-installer won't run, well,
then, the re-installer and the change-installer and the in-installer
won't run, either.

Kinda like getting all four feet stuck on the tar-baby!

I can't justify trying to refresh-install WinXP because installing
WinXP is what broke my system (several things, not just MSOffice
installation data) in the first place.

Now that everything except MSOffice is working I'm reluctant (that's
an understatement!) to let the fox back into the chicken coop.

Anyone have any great ideas or secret incantations?

Regardz,
Ken

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Ken Leonard
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[werner stern]

See my reply to another today.

If office 2000 is not in the add/remove list then just delete the office
directory. Find any other instances of office and delete those also. Then
reinstall the program from scratch. It should work most easily if you put it
into the same location. (You have, I presume deleted the office directory.
I'm also assuming your documents are in another location entirely preferably
as a backup off the computer in a zip or cd).

Good luck.