You are welcome but the blame (if that is what you are assigning) belongs to the OEM who puts this crapola into their default installation. With a clean installtion of Office retail, this does not happen.
At any rate, glad you got it taken care of.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, Brad asked:
| Milly,
|
| Thank you very much. I had never heard of--or noticed--the Find Target
| button. I find both ms_office_trial.exe and the previously mentioned
| welcomeTour.exe.
|
| It's disturbing that these "super hidden" directories are there, even
| though I had elected to display all hidden files and directories.
|
| It's not like either of those files are crucial to the operation and
| security of the operating system. It's all to protect no one but
| marketeering and the hope that the user will change their mind and
| purchase a license. I had to let off a little steam.
|
| Plus, it does no good for your co-hort's "garfield-n-odie's" purely
| useless and unhelpful blather about exact timing of my message
| posting. On other MS forums, messages appear in very short order.
| Such blather isn't worthy of an MVP.
|
| In contrast, thank you, Millie for your professional and helpful
| solution.
|
| Regards,
| Brad
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What happens if you right click on it, select properties and then
|| navigate to that directory using Find Target?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Brad asked:
||
||| I hope that this in not a double posting, but I cannot find the
||| original message that I had posted a few hours ago.
|||
||| How can I remove the Microsoft Office 2003 edition 60 Days Trial
||| Welcome Tour, please?
|||
||| The path points to a directory that I cannot see or access, even
||| when I set the file system to display all hidden files:
|||
||| C:\WINDOWS\Installer\welcomeTour.exe
|||
||| I cannot see or navigate that path from windows explorer or the
||| command prompt.
|||
||| I have already completed the program removal processes for Office
||| Trial edition as well as the Office One Note.
|||
||| Thank you
