Installing Office 2007 RTM…After Uninstalling Beta 2…and then some…
So I finally got motivated to install the RTM version of Office 2007 this evening. I had been running the beta 2 refresh version for a while and was all-in-all pretty happy with it. However, I have the final bits, so hey, I should take advantage of it. Anyways, the directions say to first uninstall any prerelease versions of the software before installing the final bits. No problem. I went to the "Add/Remove Programs" dialog in Windows XP and uninstalled everything that looked remotely related to Office. Unfortunately, when I tried to install the RTM version of Office, the installer stopped at the very beginning of the process, saying that it would not install until I had uninstalled all prerelease components. But I….thought….ah – never mind! A quick Internet search led me to this post by Scott Hanselman, and more importantly, to a tool that is definitely going into my toolbox. The tool is called MyUninstaller, and it is a replacement for the Add/Remove Programs dialog. In short, this thing is awesome! When I ran it, I saw that not only were there still 4 Office components still on my machine, but also that there were about 10 Office-related service packs still installed. After uninstalling those components, my installation ran perfectly.
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About hdierking
I am currently the Editor-in-Chief for MSDN Magazine. I joined Microsoft in 2006 as a product planner with the certification team at Microsoft Learning. Prior to that, I spent my career as a developer and later as an architect. My main technology passions include pretty much anything on language theory, agile development, and service-oriented architecture.
