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Re: office 2000: how do I get the thing off my machine?

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From: robbie irvine
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:00
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:15:53 +0100, ms <mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote
a message in demon.tech.pc that I am replying to:

>In a moment of fey recklessness, I decided to try out Office 2000
>Premium on my laptop, plumping for the regular install option.
oh..

how much space did you have when you styarted the install?
and how many cd's did it get through (1,2,3 or 4)

>Deciding to abandon the whole thing (I've got work to do!), I tried to
>uninstall Office 2000 but it's not possible! Everytime I try and get to
>the uninstall option (either through the add/remove programs dialogue or
>from the CD setup.exe) I get the same 'welcome to Office 2000' screen,
>ten minutes of rattling drives and then the same error messages.
it sounds like your out of disk space (including swap)

>And the loop continues....
it probably will - can you uninstall something else?

>Please! Someone! How do I get this off my machine?!!!
>(W98 SE, Sony laptop)
you could try restoring one of the old registries that are saved and
hand deleting O2K

robbie
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From: robbie irvine <robbie@arrakis.nu>
Subject: Re: office 2000: how do I get the thing off my machine?
Date: 1999/09/15
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