STDEDU.MSI missing, student office 2003 can not be unistalled

[MEMO]

STDEDU.MSI

All unistallers claim this to be a file needed to uninstall Office standard
student and teacher edition 2003. Unfortunately some teacher that is no
longer with us took the disk that belonged to him/her and now even using the
so called uninstalling feature in an Office Student and Teacher edition 2003
(not the standard) the program still demands the STDEDU.MSI file and when it
is not found anywhere the result is the unistaller stops and one gigabyte of
wasted space.

Sure, we can use the computer as it is, but we need to install other
programs, but after looking around many other tech forums, it seems
formatting is the only solution, but it is? By the way we already tried the
Ogre office removal tool. The tool still demands the STDEDU.MSI file.

 

[Susan Ramlet]

Hi, MEMO,

Was Office XP originally installed on this computer? If so, it may be that
the installer is looking for that CD. Do you have the original CDs for that
to supply? STDEDU.MSI came with Office XP Student and Teacher Edition.

Alternatively, you could try running the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility
to remove registry entries to Office programs, then delete the program files
directory with the Office files in them. It's ugly, but it would reclaim
some of your disk space.