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by roblesj

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What I need to do in order to delete two bad office intallations (in the same machine)?. I recently upgrade the OS from win 98 to w2k in my computer, when finished the w2k installer said that all ok, but the office installation doesn't works. So, I try the add/remove option from OS and this option ask me about data1.msi file. I provide the path to this file but the program say something like this file was not valid. Then I ran regedit and I deleted all the Office registry. This action gave me the option to make other office installation but also doesn't works. The question is: How to delete both office 2000 installations?

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by infomann1

So far, the only effective means I have found to remove a bad Office 2K installation is to use the Office 2K CDROM on each machine, open the window to display the files on the CDROM and select the "install" option. Office 2000 will pop up a windows that asks whether you want to uninstall or repair/reinstall. If you uninstall in this method, it should do the trick. I've used the repair/reinstall option on ocassions as well with success - provided no changes have been made to the registry or files removed from the Office 2K directory. Otherwise, reinstall from the install CD - Office 2K wants only the data1.msi from the CD - from my experiences.

by popeye_doyle

Remove Both With Office cd, then download & Run ERASER2K.exe from Microsoft web site, then reinstall Office to the system.

by hjs

The other two answers are good but not what I would do. I would get all of your data off and start over. Here is why. You said that you did an upgrade from W98 to W2k. These are completely different OS's. It is not what you want to here, but is the correct way to do it.

by richtremblay

In regards to answer 3....Windows 2000 does upgrade from Windows 98, the other answers are good, try those, but while upgraded OSes is never the *best* thing to do, what you did was fine, no real need to start from scratch!

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