What is the meaning of Mini Installs ??? Windows Installer maybe ???

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"Kelvin" wrote in message
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I have a PC what had an older version of Office, 2000 I believe.

What I did first is installed Office 2003 logged in as the user, but logged into
Add/Remove Programs as me the Domain Admin.
I told it to remove the older version of Office.
Then the user complained that every time he opened any Office app it wants to do
it's mini install like he had never opened it before.

Since then I've uninstalled both versions of Office, ran the Office cleanup tool,
reinstalled Office 2003, but he's reporting that it still wants to do the mini
install.

I figured out that if I give him Local Admin rights Office doesn't do its mini
install.

What else can I do to resolve this?
I don't want to have to give him any special rights if I don't have to...
Should I have deleted the Office parts of the Registry tree?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Kelvin