Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: sixerjman on 12 April 2004, 22:42
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Well, after 3 hours of research and failed attempts at uninstalling, reinstalling and uninstalling, I finally found a brute force method of getting the dormant and unused Works 2000 Suite off my hard drive so I may have enough free disk space to install some software I actually want to use, like programming tools...
...At least I THINK I finally got em off the drive and out of the registry. Used a couple of handy DOS scripts from MS themselves, something called wks2kll.exe and a 'Windows Installer Cleanup' utility.
<*rant on*>
The very existence of these tools is MS's tacit admission that the MS Works 2000 software is flawed and that a brute force solution must be employed to even REMOVE the software using the standard ADD/REMOVE function, and that solution could only be found after some searching.
Installing Microsoft bloatware on a hard disk is like stepping into a room with wall to wall fly paper on the floor, I just wanted to get out and free up some disk space, not learn the intricacies of setup launchers, registry tasks, and a host of "cleanup" utilities designed to stitch up the sucking chest wound that is MS application software.
<*rant off*>
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I know a much better method of getting rid of bloatware from Works 2000:
www.openoffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org)
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Originally posted by xeen:
I know a much better method of getting rid of bloatware from Works 2000:
www.openoffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org)
just installing OOo will not automagically remove it.
he HAD to go through those steps to remove it from his box, before he could install OOo.
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"Microsoft Works".
Nope, doesn't sound right to me :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by Sauron: GenSTEP Fanboy:
just installing OOo will not automagically remove it.
he HAD to go through those steps to remove it from his box, before he could install OOo.
The way I understood it is he wanted to remove all the unnessacery bloat but keep using Works.
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Originally posted by Refalm:
"Microsoft Works".
Nope, doesn't sound right to me :rolleyes:
lol. That juxtaposition never occured to me...
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The reason why it is so hard to uninstall is because they integrate it. It pretty much is a part of the OS once you install it.