vista and office2007

[Guest]

recently i had to do a reinstall of vista hp from a partition i had office
2007 installed prior to the reinstall after i reinstalled vista i expected to
have to reinstall office 2007 aswell but to my surprise it was already
installed . is this right as all my other software had to be reinstalled

 

[Mac]

Sounds like Office 2007 was bundled as part of your OEM configuration and
was reinstalled from the hidden partition along with Vista?

 

[Tim]

If you purchased your PC with Office already installed and you re-installed
Vista from the vendor's "recovery" partition then it worked the way it was
supposed to. Most recovery disks or partitions (from vendors like Dell) will
restore your PC to what it was like when you first got it (i.e. with Office
installed, in your case). My guess is the applications you had to reinstall
are those that did not come with the PC originally.

Tim

 

[Guest]

no the office was from abought disc and installed seperatly

 

[Mac]

Did you do a clean reinstall?

no the office was from abought disc and installed seperatly

 

[Guest]

yes restore to factory condition
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martyb

Did you do a clean reinstall?

 

[Tim]

Hmmm...any possibility "factory condition" included a Trial version of
Office? Where/when did you purchase the PC?

Tim

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Marty

If you used "Restore to factory condition" then Office 2007 came bundled
with the PC. Restore to factory condition is only an option when you use the
OEM hidden partition or disk to restore the system. The version of Office
2007 on the system, after the restore, may not be the full retail version
that you purchased.

 

[Mac]

That's what I originally suspected - will await the OP's feedback...

 

[Guest]

thanks for all the feedback,as far as iam aware there was no office program
on my partion were the os is held. laptop is new from pc world preinstalled
with vista hp is it possible that the office program got backed up to this
partition?will it be wise to reinstall with the disc anyway?

martyb

 

[Mac]

Quite weird - yes reinstall, as you don't really know what you are using
otherwise, and therefore future problems are just going to be confounded by
this mystery.

thanks for all the feedback,as far as iam aware there was no office
program
on my partion were the os is held. laptop is new from pc world
preinstalled
with vista hp is it possible that the office program got backed up to this
partition?will it be wise to reinstall with the disc anyway?

martyb

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Go to Programs and Features and uninstall Office 2007 before you install your
bought version of Office 2007.

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thanks for all the feedback,as far as iam aware there was no office program
on my partion were the os is held. laptop is new from pc world preinstalled
with vista hp is it possible that the office program got backed up to this
partition?will it be wise to reinstall with the disc anyway?

martyb