Comments on: Office 2003 Media Required for Uninstall of Application?

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:23:48 +0000

Thanks for the comment Kirk - you’re right, it’s bizarre and frustrating that the remove process doesn’t actually do what it says…

By: the___stranger

the___stranger — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:53:10 +0000

I was doing a search for completely remove office 2003 and came accross your blog, I’ve seen it before in other searches. I’m an IT Manager for a small company … I guess my searching takes me in your direction. My 2 cents are Microsoft needs a new button - one that say something like “I really really want to remove this software yeah all of it, even the hidden parts” Or they could just have the uninstall button do what it says it will do and have another button that says something like ” I want to kinda uninstall this software, I would like to keep pieces of it around to waste space and cause me problems in the future”
Nice blog!!!

Kirk - thepoweroflove.us

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:29:13 +0000

Yeah, I usually leave them cached on the drive, but this wasn’t my laptop nor do they have the Office 2003 install CD any more (that they could find). I managed to get Outlook 2007 on there anyway, even though during the install of 2007 it asked for the CD of Office 2003. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:55:12 +0000

1. Visioneer does the same dumb stuff.

2. In the future, if you install Office 2k3, make sure the last check box isn’t ticked. If the install files are cached on the drive, you never need the media. If they aren’t then you do, even (bizarrely enough) for the uninstall.