Advice on Installing MS Office on New Computer
Dec 15, 2008 | 3:11 pm
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Advice on Installing MS Office on New Computer
I have the MS Office (Student Edition) actual CD... should I delete the onscreen 60 day trial from the computer first before installing from the product CD? Or does it not matter?
Seems to me that in the past, the computers have gotten "confused" when installing from a CD when there was a trial copy already on the hard drive.
Seems to me that in the past, the computers have gotten "confused" when installing from a CD when there was a trial copy already on the hard drive.
Dec 15, 2008 | 3:58 pm
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Before installing a keeper copy of MS Office, I always visit ~Control Panel ~Add or Remove Programs ~(MS Office) Uninstall
This is the same tactic for the TONS of unwanted garbage that usually comees with new PC's.
Then I install the keeper software.
This is the same tactic for the TONS of unwanted garbage that usually comees with new PC's.
Then I install the keeper software.
Dec 15, 2008 | 9:49 pm
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Dec 16, 2008 | 11:26 am
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So, it still couldn't hurt to remove the trial...and it may help quite a bit!
Cheers.
Dec 16, 2008 | 6:37 pm
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I did indeed delete the trial version of Office 2007 before installing from a CD on a new desktop. I did not do this a week or so back on a new laptop and that was a mild pain at installation.
Dec 17, 2008 | 2:30 am
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Concur... whenever starting a new computer, I always remove all the bs software they include... 
including the ridiculous Office 60 day trial... what is the point?
Then load on my own version (2003) of MS Office!
Biggest problem these days is HP's insistence of having a bootable partition on my HD...! Why can I not get a DVD of Vista & drivers???
including the ridiculous Office 60 day trial... what is the point?Then load on my own version (2003) of MS Office!
Biggest problem these days is HP's insistence of having a bootable partition on my HD...! Why can I not get a DVD of Vista & drivers???
Dec 18, 2008 | 7:41 am
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All better now thanks to uninstalling the trial first.
Dec 18, 2008 | 8:22 am
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One bit of advice -- after loading the new MS Office run Ghost (or some other sector backup program) and make a DVD image of your hard drive. If you have to reformat the HD in the future just restore from this image so you don't burn one of your software licenses (or go pleading to Redmond).