-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Microsoft Word-Excel-etc. - to delete or not to delete - patch or not to patch
- From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:35:26 -0400
You may totally remove anything related to Office. Go to Add/Remove
software and remove it. Then go to Windows Explorer and delete all the
folders left behind. Note: if you never actually installed the Office
trial, you will "remove only". If you did the trial install you will
"uninstall".
If you still get the update notices run a registry cleaner or manually edit
out references to office. If you still get the notices, hide the updates.
If you complain to Microsoft tech support they will reply with procedures
that would give their lead programmer a headache.
Note: Some system recovery processes (either CD/DVD based or HD partition
based) may allow you to do a recovery and elect to NOT copy things such as
Norton and Office trials onto the hard drive. My free Vista Express upgrade
allowed that also. I left off everything from A to Z. Norton -A-nti Virus
to HP game -Z-one.
Note: If you installed the Office trial and only want to get rid of Excel,
just uninstall Excel. That will not impact anything else in Office that you
leave installed. However, with Open Office installed why have MS Office at
all?
Outlook Express 7 is really Windows Mail and is in Vista only. It is not
(as far as I know) available for the XP or earlier platforms. I have not
checked it out yet, but http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com should support both
OE and Windows Mail.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:54 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Microsoft Word-Excel-etc. - to delete or not to
delete - patch or not to patch
> My computer came with a 60 day trial of the basic Microsoft programs and I
> installed Open Office instead. Every time I do a windows update they tell
> me I need to download all the patches for these programs and when I did a
> scan with Trend Micro it also told me I needed to get these patches.
>
> Windows keeps telling me I need to update Outlook Junk e-mail filter,
> Excel
> viewer, and 3 for office 2003 - now I probably need to do the 3 for Office
> correct? But I don't have Outlook on here so not sure why it's telling me
> I
> have to patch that one also.
>
> Can I safely delete the Excel program without it having an effect on any
> other programs?
>
> Last - what is the current take on Outlook Express 7 and if I download it
> will it delete all the mail in my folders currently and the folders
> themselves plus addresses, etc - in other words do I need to back all that
> stuff up or at least make a list of the name of the folders I have been
> using.
>
> Okay that's it for the questions tonight. I probably won't be seeing any
> answers tonight as heading to bed shortly but will check in the a.m.
> Thanks - Dolores
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