uninstall powerpoint 97

[Guest]

I want to un-install Powerpoint to free up more room on a small hard drive.
It's a Sony laptop Pentium 1, 64 MB RAM, 266 Mhz, Windows 98. Microsoft
Office came pre-installed on laptop, so no installation discs. When I go to
"Add/Remove Programs" and click on Microsoft Office, I get error message
"Setup cannot find the files on G: from which you originally installed the
product-- Run the setup program from the CD or floppy disc 1."

Any ideas on how I can uninstall or what files I can safely delete?

Thank you.

LJ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want to un-install Powerpoint to free up more room on a small hard drive.
It's a Sony laptop Pentium 1, 64 MB RAM, 266 Mhz, Windows 98. Microsoft
Office came pre-installed on laptop, so no installation discs. When I go to
"Add/Remove Programs" and click on Microsoft Office, I get error message
"Setup cannot find the files on G: from which you originally installed the
product-- Run the setup program from the CD or floppy disc 1."

Any ideas on how I can uninstall or what files I can safely delete?

A pox on all computer manufacturers who do this to their customers.
And a really really bad rash on MS for allowing it.

I doubt you can uninstall PowerPoint properly, but you can get some of its
files out of the way easily enough.

Look in Program Files\Microsoft Office
If there's a "Microsoft Office Setup" icon there, try it. It might work out
better than Add/Remove, but probably not.

Otherwise, remove a few files:

In the Templates folder, there's a Presentations and a Presentation Designs
folder. Those hold PPT templates. Delete both.

The ClipArt folder holds ... you guessed it. If you use clip art in the other
Office apps, leave this alone. Otherwise, delete it.

In the Office folder, delete POWERPNT.EXE and any file that begins with PP

Other than that, I'm not sure what else is safe to remove.

I'd certainly back up ALL of these files before deleting anything, just in
case.

You might also consider just renaming the folders and/or files instead of
deleting them (say add an X to the beginning of the name). Then if nothing
nasty happens as you use the computer later, you can go ahead and delete them.
Otherwise, it's simple to rename them back.