MS Office and Important Updates

Did you use the un-install routine or did you delete all the files manually?

My appologies...I went through the control panel and uninstalled them as per procedure. "I" (and I'm no expert) can not find any trace of M$ office. Which is puzzling me why it keeps wanting to update anything to do with M$ office.

So you think you can uninstall our Office and get away with it? Not good enough for you ha? Already sent a software curse on you.

Bill

You sure it's not a Powerpoint Viewer update? I have vista home premium (came with office home & student), and the powerpoint viewer is a separate component from the powerpoint (in control panel/programs and features).

You may be onto something....I'll check when i get home. Thanks.

There is a MS Updater Daemon that runs in the background that looks like it might not have been uninstalled. Look in your Startup to see if it's there and remove it. You can also find it by going into Start-Run-Regedit and searching for Keys RUN and RUNONCE. They will appear in multiple locations. Delete the references to the office updater. These keys tell your machine what to load on boot and login.

Guest, please read OP's post no. 2.

OP is not at your level and may not be competent to edit the registry.

to OP: do not do what Guest is recommending, unless you are confident about what you are doing with the registry. Windows will not forgive you if you mess up the registry, and you'll be in worse trouble than always having to press <Alt>+F4 to kill those nagging pop-ups that do not have any "X" or "Close" button.

Dear;

I had similar problems that relae rather to operating system Vista. Replace Vista with Windows professional not Windows 7 and you would enjoy using whatever you want. Vist was develop intentionally to prevent you from this which you have done. This was demanded by Sony. I did replace Vista and have not experienced any problem from then. I did the replacement, because no programs I had was supported by Vista especially my chess programs.

Because of lousy performance the Microsoft would release Windows-7 that is not polished so als not good.

Stan

This is the best advice-

Install "Secunia" personal software inspector, follow directions to keep your programs updated. The Power point is a handy tool take the update.

Other route-

Look for the C:\Documents and Settings\[Your Username Here]\Applications Data directory using the File Explorer. (Substitute your username in the spot where the square brackets are above, don't include the brackets with your username)

Check for a folder named Power point in this area.

If you believe that you have fully un-installed all of your Power point files, you can delete this directory.

Sometimes, depending on how you un-install, there are files left behind in this location with your settings data or license information.

Be aware that this is not a recommended thing to do on an installed program. It is sometimes good to reinstall or upgrade a program with your preferences already as they were before, but when you are trying to start from scratch these files being left is a pain for the user.