How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office 97?

    office-97 I recently bought my daughter an old lap top with office 97 pre installed. I wanted to uninstall it and install some of office 2000 as my daughter wants office 2000 on it. When trying to uninstall Office through Add/Remove Programs, It asks for the installation CD. Then I get a setup initialization error. But apparently, I have not got the CD the file it was looking for was. So, I have to try other things to get around this.

Steps to take Office 97 away

To remove Microsoft Office 97 from the computer, I have tried following these steps:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click Add/Remove Programs. In the list of installed programs, click Microsoft Office 97, and then click Add/Remove.

3. If a dialog box displays a message stating that programs are running, quit the programs, and then click OK. If there is the Microsoft Office 97 Setup dialog box, click Remove All. When you are prompted to remove shared components, click Remove All. If you are prompted to restart the computer after Setup is completed, restart the computer.

4. If you installed Microsoft Office from a CD, you are prompted to insert the first CD.

However, if you don’t own the installation CD as I do, you will need a utility that helps you completely remove Office is available. The uninstall utility removes most of the files of Office 97 and Windows registry settings that remain on the computer after you remove Office the conventional way. Amongst the online uninstaller, Perfect Uninstaller is a popular utility that designed to be run after you run the Setup program for Office and click Remove All to remove Office. This Perfect Uninstaller is also designed to be used on stand-alone computers or workstations in order to remove any corrupted or useless applications of program files such as uninstalling Windows Messenger.