Uninstalling Office 97

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:55 PM Claire wrote:

Question: I'm trying to uninstall office 97.I downloaded eraser97.exe but it does'nt work. Nobody helps me. How do I do it?

Answer:

To uninstall any software from your PC...

Click on Start
Click on Control Panel (if you have Windows 2000 click on Settings first)
In the Control Panel select Add/Remove Programs
Scroll down the list of programs until you see the software you want to remove
Click on the name of software (in your case it should say Microsoft Office 97)
Click on the button that says remove
Follow the on screen instructions to remove all of the program

Once that step is complete you can then reboot your computer and remove the directory where Office was stored.
Double Click on the My Computer icon
Double Click on the C: drive
Double Click on the Program Files folder
Find the Microsoft Office folder
Right click on it and choose Delete

If you still have residual program info in your system after those two steps you might try a registry cleaning program to get rid of extra entries on your system.

Hope this helps,
Ed Smit
Questions@JustAskEd.net
For more answers to your computer questions check out my blog at JustAskEd.blogspot.com

Follow up:
Thanks Ed for answering! I've tried your way several times but it does'nt work. When I click on
remove it asks to insert the #1 disc which I don't have and it won't do anything. I've tried google,
yahoo, microsoft etc. of those three I've been told to download eraser97.exe, this i've done but it does'nt do anything to erase the program.

Thanks! Claire ps I'm 85 yrs old with very little memory left.Thanks again

My Reply:
Try this utility http://www.easy-uninstall.com/. You need to download the program to your computer. Open the .exe that you download and install the program. Once it is installed it will automatically run and choose Force Uninstall if the regular Uninstall doesn't work. If that doesn't work try the Special Uninstall. Last thing to try is Clear It.

Let me know if this works for you. It's a $35 dollar shareware that has an expiration date but it should work for 30 days for free.

Ed Smit
Questions@JustAskEd.net
For more answers to your computer questions check out JustAskEd.blogspot.com

P.S. This one is definitely free http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html I tested it on one of my PCs and it worked great. You should try the Advanced Option for removing the software if you don't have the original CDs.

Claire's Reply:
THANKS ED!!!!This one worked!!!Office 97 is
now off in the sky someplace. Thanks ever so Much...Claire