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Removing Office 95 from Vista
I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my
Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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Rich
Wow that has been a long time.If I remember correctly you need to put in the installation CD and select Remove when you get to that option. Hopefully I am remembering correctly and if not can someone correct me Rich when you have removed it already ,then take the Office95 CD and ship it off to any unknown destination maybe the Smithsonian . They might open a computer relic exhibition in the near future. lol -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "RichK" wrote in message ... I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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Removing Office 95 from Vista
Iirc correctly that's right, but it looks as if he is doing that. Put in
the CD and when Setup runs, select Remove Office. That's where it looks to me it is hanging. There is a KB article about running multiple versions of Office, that may help with the Word, Excel and PowerPoint error message. Load the page and search for "Multiple versions of Word". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091 Earle "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Rich Wow that has been a long time.If I remember correctly you need to put in the installation CD and select Remove when you get to that option. Hopefully I am remembering correctly and if not can someone correct me Rich when you have removed it already ,then take the Office95 CD and ship it off to any unknown destination maybe the Smithsonian . They might open a computer relic exhibition in the near future. lol -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "RichK" wrote in message ... I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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Removing Office 95 from Vista
Peter and Earle,
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Peter, I have loaded the disc #1 as Earle said and it looks as if the removal tool started but never completes just hangs up. I also ran the Vista conflict tool to see if it shows multiple versions of office and it doesn't find the Win.95 version and shows no conflicts. But if I go to add/remove programs it still shows office professional as a loaded program. Still getting Incorrect version error message when I just open 2007 word or excel. -- Rich K "Earle Horton" wrote: Iirc correctly that's right, but it looks as if he is doing that. Put in the CD and when Setup runs, select Remove Office. That's where it looks to me it is hanging. There is a KB article about running multiple versions of Office, that may help with the Word, Excel and PowerPoint error message. Load the page and search for "Multiple versions of Word". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091 Earle "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Rich Wow that has been a long time.If I remember correctly you need to put in the installation CD and select Remove when you get to that option. Hopefully I am remembering correctly and if not can someone correct me Rich when you have removed it already ,then take the Office95 CD and ship it off to any unknown destination maybe the Smithsonian . They might open a computer relic exhibition in the near future. lol -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "RichK" wrote in message ... I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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Removing Office 95 from Vista
System Restore might fix this, but I doubt you have an old enough restore
point. Still, it wouldn't hurt to look at what restore points you do have. You might have to eventually resort to massive surgery via Regedit and directory removal. If you don't want to do this, look at the KB article I posted, to see if the registry fix to prevent Word from trying to register itself works. There is I believe free install support for Office 2007, if you can't get anything to work. Look on the Office web site for this. Cheers, Earle "RichK" wrote in message ... Peter and Earle, Thanks for taking the time to respond. Peter, I have loaded the disc #1 as Earle said and it looks as if the removal tool started but never completes just hangs up. I also ran the Vista conflict tool to see if it shows multiple versions of office and it doesn't find the Win.95 version and shows no conflicts. But if I go to add/remove programs it still shows office professional as a loaded program. Still getting Incorrect version error message when I just open 2007 word or excel. -- Rich K "Earle Horton" wrote: Iirc correctly that's right, but it looks as if he is doing that. Put in the CD and when Setup runs, select Remove Office. That's where it looks to me it is hanging. There is a KB article about running multiple versions of Office, that may help with the Word, Excel and PowerPoint error message. Load the page and search for "Multiple versions of Word". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091 Earle "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Rich Wow that has been a long time.If I remember correctly you need to put in the installation CD and select Remove when you get to that option. Hopefully I am remembering correctly and if not can someone correct me Rich when you have removed it already ,then take the Office95 CD and ship it off to any unknown destination maybe the Smithsonian . They might open a computer relic exhibition in the near future. lol -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "RichK" wrote in message ... I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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Earle,
Thanks so much, appreciate your quick response. I will take your suggestion and look at the KB and try to see if Microsoft 2007 support will try to assist. Seeing how I am getting the error message when I start word or excel. -- Rich K "Earle Horton" wrote: System Restore might fix this, but I doubt you have an old enough restore point. Still, it wouldn't hurt to look at what restore points you do have. You might have to eventually resort to massive surgery via Regedit and directory removal. If you don't want to do this, look at the KB article I posted, to see if the registry fix to prevent Word from trying to register itself works. There is I believe free install support for Office 2007, if you can't get anything to work. Look on the Office web site for this. Cheers, Earle "RichK" wrote in message ... Peter and Earle, Thanks for taking the time to respond. Peter, I have loaded the disc #1 as Earle said and it looks as if the removal tool started but never completes just hangs up. I also ran the Vista conflict tool to see if it shows multiple versions of office and it doesn't find the Win.95 version and shows no conflicts. But if I go to add/remove programs it still shows office professional as a loaded program. Still getting Incorrect version error message when I just open 2007 word or excel. -- Rich K "Earle Horton" wrote: Iirc correctly that's right, but it looks as if he is doing that. Put in the CD and when Setup runs, select Remove Office. That's where it looks to me it is hanging. There is a KB article about running multiple versions of Office, that may help with the Word, Excel and PowerPoint error message. Load the page and search for "Multiple versions of Word". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091 Earle "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Rich Wow that has been a long time.If I remember correctly you need to put in the installation CD and select Remove when you get to that option. Hopefully I am remembering correctly and if not can someone correct me Rich when you have removed it already ,then take the Office95 CD and ship it off to any unknown destination maybe the Smithsonian . They might open a computer relic exhibition in the near future. lol -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "RichK" wrote in message ... I just purchased a new PC that came with Vista Home Premium. I loaded my Office Professional 95 software and then found they are really not compatible. I tried to remove Office 95 however, Vista runs the Microsoft removal program and it just locks up. It never finishes, ask me to install the Office 95 disc 1, ask if I want all elements removed and then just hangs up. I still show Office Professional when I go back to "Remove Programs". I purchased and loaded Office Home 2007 and now get version error message when I start Word, Excel or Power Point. However, the 2007 version seems to run fine. Can anyone help in telling me how Office 95 can be removed from Vista? -- Rich K |
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