Unable to uninstall office professional edition 2003

Do you have any suggestions? How can I either find out which 'patch
package' is the offender, or manually remove Office 2003?





"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The tool only removes the installer entries, which under normal
circumstance would allow you to reinstall Office, & then uninstall it
successfully

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I ran the tool, and it did not fix it.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
That error is explained in the link I posted, the uninstall clean up
tool should be used to remove all office 2003 entries

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
Yes, I have already copied the contendts of the CD to my hard drive BUT
when I run it, all I EVER see is the darned message about the 'patch
package', and that is where I am stuck. IF ONLY I COULD GET RID OF
THIS PATCH PACKAGE, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

Is there any log file that shows me what the 'patch package' is, so
that I can uninstall or deleted it or do what ever it takes to
obliterate it from my computer so that I can get on and continue to use
it.




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The utility removes the installer info

Are you able to copy your cd to hd using run/command line commands?

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I had already looked on Google and found this information, but the
'uninstaller' only seems to know about two DLLs, which are to do with
speech, so it does not help at all.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823
maybe helps

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I am trying to uninstall Office 2003 from a Windows XP Professional
w/SP3 and failing.

When ever I open a document with Microsoft Word 2003 it crashes.

Whenever I send an email with Outlook Express 6.0 it starts running
the installer, which I have to cancel (and which takes about 4
minutes to do so).

I found the original disk, but is is scratched and if I run it,
Windows blue screens!!!!


I have downloaded the resource kit and run the removal wizard, but
Office 2003 is still there!

HELP!

If I try to uninstall from the Control Panel I am told:

"The patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch
package exists and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer
patch package."

I have NO IDEA what this is rambling on about. I just want to
uninstall Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and get back
to being able to send emai.

Please help me to uninstall office 2003.

Package Patch err is, as far as I'm aware, caused by the installer files, as
indicated in the KB link
Under some circumstances, usually related to an o/s install, iffy memory can
cause problems.
www.memtest.org have a download, bootable cd/floppy that will test memory,
generally its usually neccesary to run the test for several hours, though of
course it may find problems in the first pass

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
Do you have any suggestions? How can I either find out which 'patch
package' is the offender, or manually remove Office 2003?





"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The tool only removes the installer entries, which under normal
circumstance would allow you to reinstall Office, & then uninstall it
successfully

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I ran the tool, and it did not fix it.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
That error is explained in the link I posted, the uninstall clean up
tool should be used to remove all office 2003 entries

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
Yes, I have already copied the contendts of the CD to my hard drive
BUT when I run it, all I EVER see is the darned message about the
'patch package', and that is where I am stuck. IF ONLY I COULD GET
RID OF THIS PATCH PACKAGE, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

Is there any log file that shows me what the 'patch package' is, so
that I can uninstall or deleted it or do what ever it takes to
obliterate it from my computer so that I can get on and continue to
use it.




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The utility removes the installer info

Are you able to copy your cd to hd using run/command line commands?

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I had already looked on Google and found this information, but the
'uninstaller' only seems to know about two DLLs, which are to do with
speech, so it does not help at all.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823
maybe helps

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I am trying to uninstall Office 2003 from a Windows XP Professional
w/SP3 and failing.

When ever I open a document with Microsoft Word 2003 it crashes.

Whenever I send an email with Outlook Express 6.0 it starts
running the installer, which I have to cancel (and which takes
about 4 minutes to do so).

I found the original disk, but is is scratched and if I run it,
Windows blue screens!!!!


I have downloaded the resource kit and run the removal wizard, but
Office 2003 is still there!

HELP!

If I try to uninstall from the Control Panel I am told:

"The patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch
package exists and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows
Installer patch package."

I have NO IDEA what this is rambling on about. I just want to
uninstall Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and get back
to being able to send emai.

Please help me to uninstall office 2003.

I ran that over night...no problems.

Is there any kind of log file that will tell me which 'patch package' is the
offendiong one so I can simply delete it in safe mode?




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
Package Patch err is, as far as I'm aware, caused by the installer files,
as indicated in the KB link
Under some circumstances, usually related to an o/s install, iffy memory
can cause problems.
www.memtest.org have a download, bootable cd/floppy that will test memory,
generally its usually neccesary to run the test for several hours, though
of course it may find problems in the first pass

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
Do you have any suggestions? How can I either find out which 'patch
package' is the offender, or manually remove Office 2003?





"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The tool only removes the installer entries, which under normal
circumstance would allow you to reinstall Office, & then uninstall it
successfully

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I ran the tool, and it did not fix it.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
That error is explained in the link I posted, the uninstall clean up
tool should be used to remove all office 2003 entries

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
Yes, I have already copied the contendts of the CD to my hard drive
BUT when I run it, all I EVER see is the darned message about the
'patch package', and that is where I am stuck. IF ONLY I COULD GET
RID OF THIS PATCH PACKAGE, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

Is there any log file that shows me what the 'patch package' is, so
that I can uninstall or deleted it or do what ever it takes to
obliterate it from my computer so that I can get on and continue to
use it.




"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
The utility removes the installer info

Are you able to copy your cd to hd using run/command line commands?

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I had already looked on Google and found this information, but the
'uninstaller' only seems to know about two DLLs, which are to do
with speech, so it does not help at all.


"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823
maybe helps

"Austin Powers" wrote in message
...
I am trying to uninstall Office 2003 from a Windows XP
Professional w/SP3 and failing.

When ever I open a document with Microsoft Word 2003 it crashes.

Whenever I send an email with Outlook Express 6.0 it starts
running the installer, which I have to cancel (and which takes
about 4 minutes to do so).

I found the original disk, but is is scratched and if I run it,
Windows blue screens!!!!


I have downloaded the resource kit and run the removal wizard,
but Office 2003 is still there!

HELP!

If I try to uninstall from the Control Panel I am told:

"The patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch
package exists and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows
Installer patch package."

I have NO IDEA what this is rambling on about. I just want to
uninstall Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and get back
to being able to send emai.

Please help me to uninstall office 2003.