need help uninstalling Office 97 from W2k

[RJK]

....a little background - A friend very recently ran an upgrade version of
W2k and it all came to a halt when it couldn'd read a file, (to do with
networking), off the W2k cd. I downloaded / made 4 W2k bootdisks set from
bootdisk.com and got it all up and running and the W2k upgrade, (from
W98se), finished up all okay. (after carefully cleaning some dust off the
cd!)

Now we want to uninstall old Office '97 which was lurking in there, in his
W98se platform before he upgraded to W2k and we get,
"Setup cannot access the required initialisation file msvcrt20.dll"

I had a little nose around and there seems to be a "ready to be installed"
copy of Office '97 on drive d:\ , but there is no msvcrt20.dll in that
structure. BTW his "installed" version of Office '97 is on drive c:\

.....I suspect that I could have deleted it, a long time ago, when searching
out duplicate *.dll's

.....am I on the right track ?

In any event - any advice on how to uninstall Office '97 without making a
mess, and of course without busting his "new" W2k platform would be ever so
appreciated !

regards, Richard

 

[David H. Lipman]

Office 97 came in a few flavours.

Try running setup.exe from the installation direction or preferably from a CDROM. If it is
properly installed, it should provided an option to repair, reinstall or remove. If it acts
like it is NOT installed, install it. After it is installed run setup and again then remove
it.

Dave




| ...a little background - A friend very recently ran an upgrade version of
| W2k and it all came to a halt when it couldn'd read a file, (to do with
| networking), off the W2k cd. I downloaded / made 4 W2k bootdisks set from
| bootdisk.com and got it all up and running and the W2k upgrade, (from
| W98se), finished up all okay. (after carefully cleaning some dust off the
| cd!)
|
| Now we want to uninstall old Office '97 which was lurking in there, in his
| W98se platform before he upgraded to W2k and we get,
| "Setup cannot access the required initialisation file msvcrt20.dll"
|
| I had a little nose around and there seems to be a "ready to be installed"
| copy of Office '97 on drive d:\ , but there is no msvcrt20.dll in that
| structure. BTW his "installed" version of Office '97 is on drive c:\
|
| ....I suspect that I could have deleted it, a long time ago, when searching
| out duplicate *.dll's
|
| ....am I on the right track ?
|
| In any event - any advice on how to uninstall Office '97 without making a
| mess, and of course without busting his "new" W2k platform would be ever so
| appreciated !
|
| regards, Richard
|
|

 

[RJK]

Thanks Dave, much appreciated. I re-copied his Office97 cd structure, (as
on the Office '97 installation cd) back into d:\office97 ,overwriting all
that was in there, and sure enough, MSVCRT20.dll and MSVCRT40.DLL reappeared
in d:\office97 there, and I ran setup.exe from there, and it uninstalled
okay.

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

....this "freshly" W98se upgraded to W2k is on a hd with c,d,e,f,g and h
drives, (8gb c: thru g: and 4.5gb h all FAT32, W2k is on c:\
and there's only about 450mb of free space on c:\
No programs have been installed onto drives other than c:\
There's nothing on d:\
....so I'm tempted to merge c: with d: but, this will of course lose a drive
letter,(making me wonder what'll happen to drive letters ..mmm FAT32 ...so
not dynamic ? I appreciate there'll be implications with deafult file
locations in apps. installed into W2k on c:\ and I suppose I'd better
check out where W2k's paging file lives ...and tmp and temp variable
addresses, ...OE message store ...hopefully all is default ..is this
going to turn into a nightmare ?

....any further thought appreciated.

regards, Richard

 

[David H. Lipman]

You have the right idea.

You can use Partition Magic to merge the second partition into the "C:" partition as one
large partition.

You can then run Regedit and perform a search for D: and edit entries from "D:" to "C:" .

You might want to do likewise will all the rest of the partitions.

Of course, before you do the above -- Use Symantec Ghost and image the platform as-is !

Once satisfied, convert to NTFS.

Dave



| ...this "freshly" W98se upgraded to W2k is on a hd with c,d,e,f,g and h
| drives, (8gb c: thru g: and 4.5gb h all FAT32, W2k is on c:\
| and there's only about 450mb of free space on c:\
| No programs have been installed onto drives other than c:\
| There's nothing on d:\
| ...so I'm tempted to merge c: with d: but, this will of course lose a drive
| letter,(making me wonder what'll happen to drive letters ..mmm FAT32 ...so
| not dynamic ? I appreciate there'll be implications with deafult file
| locations in apps. installed into W2k on c:\ and I suppose I'd better
| check out where W2k's paging file lives ...and tmp and temp variable
| addresses, ...OE message store ...hopefully all is default ..is this
| going to turn into a nightmare ?
|
| ...any further thought appreciated.
|
| regards, Richard
|
|
| | > Office 97 came in a few flavours.
| >
| > Try running setup.exe from the installation direction or preferably from a
| > CDROM. If it is
| > properly installed, it should provided an option to repair, reinstall or
| > remove. If it acts
| > like it is NOT installed, install it. After it is installed run setup and
| > again then remove
| > it.
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | ...a little background - A friend very recently ran an upgrade version
| > of
| > | W2k and it all came to a halt when it couldn'd read a file, (to do with
| > | networking), off the W2k cd. I downloaded / made 4 W2k bootdisks set
| > from
| > | bootdisk.com and got it all up and running and the W2k upgrade, (from
| > | W98se), finished up all okay. (after carefully cleaning some dust off
| > the
| > | cd!)
| > |
| > | Now we want to uninstall old Office '97 which was lurking in there, in
| > his
| > | W98se platform before he upgraded to W2k and we get,
| > | "Setup cannot access the required initialisation file msvcrt20.dll"
| > |
| > | I had a little nose around and there seems to be a "ready to be
| > installed"
| > | copy of Office '97 on drive d:\ , but there is no msvcrt20.dll in that
| > | structure. BTW his "installed" version of Office '97 is on drive c:\
| > |
| > | ....I suspect that I could have deleted it, a long time ago, when
| > searching
| > | out duplicate *.dll's
| > |
| > | ....am I on the right track ?
| > |
| > | In any event - any advice on how to uninstall Office '97 without making
| > a
| > | mess, and of course without busting his "new" W2k platform would be ever
| > so
| > | appreciated !
| > |
| > | regards, Richard
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|