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2014年6月16日星期一

Uninstall Office 97 – How to Completely Remove Microsoft 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.

How To Remove/Uninstall OCR TextScan 2 Word?

OCR-TextScan 2 Word, one of the words editing software, is a widely popular among computer users. However, when you get some problems with it, are you able uninstall OCR-TextScan 2 Word?
Maybe Windows Add/Remove Programs is the first uninstall tool came into your mind since it’s efficient to uninstall unneeded programs. But a fact you should notice is that it is not always effective in uninstalling programs as it will leave over some files or registry entries related to those unwanted programs. In this case, you can try OCR-TextScan 2 Word’s own uninstall tool.
Like other program developers, OCR-TextScan 2 Word developers also launch its own uninstall tool to offer convenience for users. Maybe it is not good as Add/Remove Program, but you can still have a try.
Remove OCR-TextScan 2 Word with its own uninstaller

Click Start Menu, and then go to All Programs.
On the list, locate to OCR-TextScan 2 Word.
Move to Uninstall OCR-TextScan 2 Word, click it.
Follow the prompts to complete the uninstall process.
Restart your computer if required.

When you finish, you may find that OCR-TextScan 2 Word its own uninstaller cannot uninstall OCR-TextScan 2 Word completely too. That’s because it leaves some registry entries for fear that you need to reinstall this program some day. Thus, if you have chosen this uninstaller to uninstall OCR-TextScan 2 Word, you need to do more things to make this uninstall complete.
To make OCR-TextScan 2 Word uninstall successful, it is essential for you to delete those related entries by yourself. But you need to be very careful to do it as it is a kind of complicated.
Delete OCR-TextScan 2 Word of related registry entries
Basically this means you need to open Registry Editor. Click Start Menu and then go to Run. Enter regedit and you can open Registry Editor. Find out all the related entries under all the folders and then delete all. However, some people may wonder how to uninstall OCR-TextScan 2 Word thoroughly and want an easy method to do it. In this case, you can use an automatic uninstall tool such as Perfect Uninstaller.

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