Office Xp will not uninstall

[Markus]

I'm trying to uninstall Office XP Pro on Win XP Pro. So I
go to the add/remove ald launch the uninstaller. After 15-
30 sec I get the Error message saying "Installer
terminated prematurely", followed by "Teh I/O operation
has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an
application request". When searching for these symptoms
in the knowledge base I was recommended to defrag teh
disk, which I have done. No improvement.
When I try to add an office service pack, or a update, I
get similar behaviour.
I feel like I'm stuck here and would really appreciate
some hints, even to a more brute force approach to
getting rid of OXP so that I can load Office 2003.
BR
/Markus

 

[Kitti]

You can try to install Office 2003 without uninstall Office XP.
By default, Office 2003 will uninstall Office XP for you.
If you still see the same problem then, I think you should call Microsoft
PSS.
They can do remote assistance to check it your Office XP installation file
is corrupted or not and try to fix it.

Good luck.