Old Office Registry Keys

[Dewey]

Hi,

I have a Dell Latitude laptop running win2k. I started with Office 2000 but
have upgraded to Office XP(2002). I noticed that in the registry under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office there are entries for versions 10.0 and 9.0.
It seems that all the branches and entries are identical (as near as I can
tell) so my question is this: Do I need both sets of keys/values? Or can I
dump the entire 9.0 branch? There is also an 8.0 branch with an "Outlook"
subkey but the only value there is "First-Run REG_SZ False" which seems to
me to be superfluous but also not terribly annoying.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
Dewey

 

[Dewey]

Hi,

I have a Dell Latitude laptop running win2k. I started with Office
2000 but have upgraded to Office XP(2002). I noticed that in the
registry under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office there are entries for
versions 10.0 and 9.0. It seems that all the branches and entries are
identical (as near as I can tell) so my question is this: Do I need
both sets of keys/values? Or can I dump the entire 9.0 branch? There
is also an 8.0 branch with an "Outlook" subkey but the only value
there is "First-Run REG_SZ False" which seems to me to be superfluous
but also not terribly annoying.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
Dewey

Whoops - forgot to mention the same branches are present under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office. Can those be deleted also?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Unless you have some compelling reason it's always best to leave the
registry intact.

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:
| Hi,
|
| I have a Dell Latitude laptop running win2k. I started with Office 2000
but
| have upgraded to Office XP(2002). I noticed that in the registry under
| HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office there are entries for versions 10.0 and
9.0.
| It seems that all the branches and entries are identical (as near as I can
| tell) so my question is this: Do I need both sets of keys/values? Or can I
| dump the entire 9.0 branch? There is also an 8.0 branch with an "Outlook"
| subkey but the only value there is "First-Run REG_SZ False" which seems to
| me to be superfluous but also not terribly annoying.
|
| Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
| Dewey

 

[Dewey]

Unless you have some compelling reason it's always best to leave the
registry intact.

Other than the fact that it annoys me, no I have no real reason. But I
really would like to delete the keys.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll destroy and or corrupt your office install by removing the keys.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Other than the fact that it annoys me, no I have no real reason. But I
| really would like to delete the keys.

 

[Dewey]

You'll destroy and or corrupt your office install by removing the keys.

Are you sure or are you just going with the Bush Administration estimates?
(that's a joke). But really, why do I need the 9.0 keys with office 10.0?
Anyway, I deleted them (although I exported them first so I can easily
restore in case of catastrophic success) and so far No Problemo.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Backward compatibility or ask them in the office.setup groups.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Are you sure or are you just going with the Bush Administration estimates?
| (that's a joke). But really, why do I need the 9.0 keys with office 10.0?
| Anyway, I deleted them (although I exported them first so I can easily
| restore in case of catastrophic success) and so far No Problemo.

 

[BillW50]

No problem! Just save (export) the keys to a file and then delete them in the registry. If things goes wrong, double click on the saved reg file(s) to reinstall the keys. Besides maybe a reboot later, what could go wrong?

I recall using Partition Magic to move Office application files to other partitions and it would have the longest list of registry changes I've ever seen (you can view them before PM does its stuff). Although I also experiemented with Office 97 and I move the folders arounds just by dragging them elsewhere in Windows Explorer.

To my surprise, Office worked very well! I even dragged the Office folders to another computer that never had Office installed. That worked to. In both cases the intergration with other applications was lacking, but that isn't bad since I expected the applications won't even run from such a state.

Bill


Date: 14 Feb 2005 22:42:48 GMT

You'll destroy and or corrupt your office install by removing the keys.

Are you sure or are you just going with the Bush Administration estimates?
(that's a joke). But really, why do I need the 9.0 keys with office 10.0?
Anyway, I deleted them (although I exported them first so I can easily
restore in case of catastrophic success) and so far No Problemo.