How do I uninstall Office 2000 and install Office Pro 2000

This is a long post to collect issues relating to uninstalling Office [2000
specifically, though it could be modified for other versions and programs]
necessary for future referencing.
PLEASE do not quote or include this post in its entirety in any answers!!
CUT/CLIP what sections you are responding to from this [or the prior
discussions] when posting your input.

SUMMARY of prior discussions [Hopefully BAP and BC will use this discussion
for further activities]:

Two separate discussions were had in this group relating to the inability
to remove Office 2000 SR1 or correct errors occurring. The first discussion
was unsuccessful with correction of issues and/or removal.

As the poster [BAP] did not have the CDROM(s) for Office 2000, but had
CD-ROMs for Office Pro 2000, it was determined [in the second discussion,
and I think, suggested in the first] that the best recourse was to uninstall
the standard edition, and replace it with the Pro version. It could NOT be
accomplished using the Office un-installation routine in the original
installation.

A poster [BC] created an un-installation/cleanup routine for BAP to use,
which I looked at and thought might work.
MY ERROR was to presume BAP would restart the computer [thereby refreshing
the registry] after each step. There are now errors and issues which need to
be addressed. I apologize to BAP for my failure to direct the restarts
should be used.

"MEB" <meb@not real@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This is a long post to collect issues relating to uninstalling Office
[2000
> specifically, though it could be modified for other versions and programs]
> necessary for future referencing.

Will you not get much more expert advice in one
of the 100+ NGs MS maintains for the Office suite?
MS probably no longer supports Office 2000 but
its NGs continue, and that is the place to look for
special knowledge. None of the quoted material
seems peculiar to Win98.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Geeees, I love it when someone posts without thinking or checking what
they're posting against..

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"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@rogers.com> wrote in message
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| "MEB" <meb@not real@hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:%23oJu$ImOHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
|
| > This is a long post to collect issues relating to uninstalling Office
| [2000
| > specifically, though it could be modified for other versions and
programs]
| > necessary for future referencing.
|
| Will you not get much more expert advice in one
| of the 100+ NGs MS maintains for the Office suite?
| MS probably no longer supports Office 2000 but
| its NGs continue, and that is the place to look for
| special knowledge. None of the quoted material
| seems peculiar to Win98.
| --
| Don Phillipson
| Carlsbad Springs
| (Ottawa, Canada)
|
|
|

What a relief, MEB! I had been spending considerable amount of time
collecting issues, suggestions, answers from the replies to the original and
subsequent post regarding Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Standard and had several
pages almost ready for posting, but I am glad that you came thru with your
recap that, I am sure, would be more to the point than mine would have been.
Thank you!

The Office Applications, following the installation of MS Office 2000 Pro,
continue to perform as explained in my last reply to your questions.
To this point, I have not attempted to follow BC's suggestion for cleaning
up my Registry. I am ready to do so, however, as my confidence grows that I
won't mess up the timing and progression of things to do, avoiding the
dont's.

Your latest comments:
MSRCLR40.DLL is Microsoft Jet Briefcase Reconciler Library [my present
version is 4.00.2927.2], to partially address BAP's listed error at 3. per my
questions.
***
Hopefully this would prompt for answers that could cure “Error 1904 - Module
C:\Windows\System\MSRCLR40.DLL had failed to register. HResult-2147023739.
Contact your Support Personnel”.

Your next comment:
Note that BAP's registry is filled with old entrees which need removed, and
is likely too large for a successful /fix /opt using scanreg unless they are
removed [hence the need to clean the registry first].
***

By [hence the need to clean the registry first], I assume you mean to clean
the registry by running CCleaner, as BC suggests with the following:

> 1) CCleaner should always give you a backup option when
> you pick Fix All Selected issues.
>
> 2) I would purge anything CCleaner sees as an issue. It's
> a very conservative registry cleaner.
>
> 3) To restore the registry files backed up with regback.bat
> simply means copying the contents of the regback folder,
> especially system.dat and user.dat, into the c:\windows
> folder, overwriting what's already there. You would have
> to use the attrib command to unhide and unprotect the
> active system and user dat files first. The easiest way
> would be to just rename the c:\windows\regback folder
> that was already created to something like regback1 or
> such. Regback.bat will recreate a new regback folder,
> make another copy of the system files, and unprotect
> and unhide the registry files as well.
>
> I would make another backup of the existing system
> files before reusing an older backup.
>
> Once you've cleaned up things with CCleaner as best
> you can, you can use a Microsoft trick to mildly
> optimize the registry:
>
> a) Restart in DOS mode (the prompt doesn't matter)
>
> b) Enter: smartdrv
> (optional, for speed)
>
> c) Then enter: scanreg /fix /opt

****

MEB, thank you again, for your work!

MEB wrote:
> "BAP" <BAP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>
<snip>
>
> The below should be used only AFTER you have carefully cleaned your
> registry and found no errors, or errors which might be corrected BY using
> this technique, as final cleanup/compaction. The present registry is too
> large and with apparently too many invalid entries for accurate usage. If
it
> were not so, then this might be a good way to do "house cleaning".
> Moreover, it sometimes removes entries from the registry by "mistake"
> [doesn't recognize them properly and removes them] so this technique also
> needs to be used with caution.

Wait a minute, MEB. Are you saying that using "scanreg /fix /opt" has
*actually* removed some entries by mistake? Have you actually seen that
happen? If so, can you be more specific (if you happen to recall) what it
was, for example?


>>> Once you've cleaned up things with CCleaner as best you
>>> can, you can use a Microsoft trick to mildly optimize the registry:
>>>
>>> a) Restart in DOS mode (the prompt doesn't matter)
>>>
>>> b) Enter: smartdrv
>>> (optional, for speed)
>>>
>>> c) Then enter: scanreg /fix /opt
>>
>> ****
>>
>> MEB, thank you again, for your work!
>
> Well, we're not done yet... and others have already helped and will be
> helping... none of us need thanks, we like helping others if we can,
though
> its always appreciated...

Don Phillipson wrote:
> "MEB" <meb@not real@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23oJu$ImOHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> > This is a long post to collect issues relating to uninstalling Office
> [2000
> > specifically, though it could be modified for other versions and programs]
> > necessary for future referencing.
>
> Will you not get much more expert advice in one
> of the 100+ NGs MS maintains for the Office suite?
> MS probably no longer supports Office 2000 but
> its NGs continue, and that is the place to look for
> special knowledge. None of the quoted material
> seems peculiar to Win98.

MS doesn't do "expert" advice that deviates
from their standard advice regardless if it's
applicable or not. This means that if you have
an issue that a standard MS procedure can't
or won't fix, too bad.

-BC

Your observation, MEB:
"Note that BAP's registry is filled with old entrees which need removed,
and is likely too large for a successful /fix /opt using scanreg unless they
are removed [hence the need to clean the registry first]".

Currently, my USER.DAT is 1.57 MB. SYSTEM.DAT is 10.1 MB.

BC's step-by-step suggestions:
"I would make another backup of the existing system files before reusing an
older backup.
Once you've cleaned up things with CCleaner as best you can, you can use a
Microsoft trick to mildly optimize the registry:
a) Restart in DOS mode (the prompt doesn't matter)
b) Enter: smartdrv (optional, for speed)
c) Then enter: scanreg /fix /opt
This will rebuild your registry files.

***MEB, BC....this is what transpired:
I followed the steps, as suggested, but the command scanreg /fix /opt
stopped at 89%, before it was interrupted by this error: “Windows found an
error in your System files and was unable to fix the problem. Try deleting
some files to free up disk space on your Window Drive. If that doesn’t
work, then you will need to install Windows to a new Directory.”
Does “Window Drive” refer to Windows Folder?
I re-booted and explored the Windows folder. As one would expect, there are
plenty of folders and files, but not all readily identifiable as to their
source, need or purpose.
For my Windows Folder, its Properties shows its size at 3.18GB, containing
11,361 Files and 985 Folders. Among them, are several entries that appear to
be related to installed games. In addition, there are several Folders named
Wcm and Wcm001 thru Wcm007. I explored each with these results:
Wcm: 27 files - 3.11MB - 09/30/2001.
Wcm.001: 9 files - 1.43MB - 01/07/2004
Wcm.002: 1 files - 24KB - 01/19/2004
Wcm.003: 89 files - 14.2MB - 02/21/2004
Wcm.004: 89 files - 14.2MB - 02/24/2004
Wcm.005: 7 files - 1.82 - 05/20/2004
Wcm.006: 1 file - 24KB - 05/20/2004
Wcm.007: 89 files - 15.5MB - 05/24/2004
Is there a reason for keeping these Folders?
There are familiar Applications that I could possibly delete, but I have no
idea about what else I could do to satisfy the need expressed by scanreg /fix
/opt.
I am currently reviewing Gary’s, Glee’s and Badour’s views on the subject,
posted in late November of 2006. My inclination, at this point, is not to
start a new thread within your Recap and proceed with caution with further
activities on the subject matter.
Thank you, MEB,BC and all for any additional suggestion!
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