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    Vista admin rights vs. uninstall

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jonlowe, Mar 18, 2008.

  1. jonlowe

    jonlowe Notebook Consultant

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    I have a Asus laptop running Vista Home Premium. I want to uninstall MS Office 2003 to put on MS Office 2007. I only have an admin user profile installed, with only one user name and password. When I go to uninstall Office 2003 from the control panel, it stops because I'm supposedly not signed in as an admin account. I had a similar problem uninstalling an Asus program, and finally had to get the install DVD, right click on the installer, run it as an admin user, and then it let me uninstall. The control panel doesn't appear to let you run the uninstallers as admin thru right clicking or anywhere else. I really don't want to go thru this everytime I want to uninstall something.

    What am I missing?

    Thx.

    Jon
     
    jonlowe, Mar 18, 2008
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  2. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    Uh I don't know, I haven't had this problem, but... you could try poking around in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003 and see if you can find an uninstall program in there.
     
    swarmer, Mar 18, 2008
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  3. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

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    Or You Can Use Registry to Search for a Uninstall String and then open a elevated CMD prompt and execute it via the CMD Prompt bro

    most likely place where you can find all uninstall string would be in

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Uninstall

    and the string should look like this

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    MsiExec.exe /X{90120000-0115-0409-0000-0000000FF1CE}
     
    vinumsv, Mar 18, 2008
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  4. deputy963

    deputy963 Notebook Evangelist

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    If you attempt to install office 2007 it should allow you to replace 2003 from within the setup routine.

    If you truly want to uninstall 2003 first, insert the 2003 disk and go to Computer. Right click on your CD drive and choose open. Find the setup program and right click>run as administrator. This should open the installation program which will give you 3 options - 1.modify - 2.repair - 3.remove.
     
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  5. jonlowe

    jonlowe Notebook Consultant

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    I figured i could do that. I just don't understand why, if I'm signed in as an admin, it won't let me uninstall, and asked me to resign in as an admin. Figured it must be a global admin rights issue, as I ran into the same issue with another program. Any program that checks for admin rights seems to have the issue.

    Thx.

    Jon

     
    jonlowe, Mar 19, 2008
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