MsOffice

[rigarlan]

My system running Win98 Se with many programs including MS Office professional edition (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook) was very unstable. I unwisely reinstalled Win 98 without doing anything else. I lost many links and drivers, but have recovered all but Office. Whwn I attempt to uninstall or install Office, I get a message "Windows installer - The patch package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows installer patch package" The CD is good as it will run on my second computer. My registry has many entries for the Office products and I suspect that it is big time corrupted. Any ideas?

[reghakr]

I'm not sure, but try downloading the latest version of the installer:

<a target="_blank" href=http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/wininst/1.1/W9X/EN-US/InstMsi.exe>http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/wininst/1.1/W9X/EN-US/InstMsi.exe</a>

If that doesn't work, you'll have to COMPLETELY remove it. In Internet Explorer, go to Help&gt;Online Support, choose the Microsoft Knowledge Base, then check the box that says specify an article ID number, then paste the article #'s below into the search box.

Q219423 - OFF2000: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office CD1
Excerpt from this page:This article describes how to completely remove Microsoft Office 2000 from your computer. This article includes files installed from CD1 and does not apply to other compact discs included with your edition of Microsoft Office 2000.(size 20905 bytes, updated 2/23/2001 12:57:00 PM GMT)

Q239938 - OFF2000: Utility to Completely Remove Remaining Office CD1 Files and Registry Entries
Excerpt from this page:A utility that helps you completely remove Microsoft Office 2000 is available from Microsoft. The Office 2000 CD1 File and Registry Eraser Utility removes most of the files and Windows registry settings that remain on the computer after you(size 8580 bytes, updated 11/2/2000 2:51:00 PM GMT)

Q247674 - OFF2000: Utility to Completely Remove Remaining Office CD2 Files
Excerpt from this page:A utility that helps you completely remove Microsoft Office 2000 CD2 is available from Microsoft. The Office 2000 CD2 File and Registry Eraser Utility removes most of the files and Windows registry settings that remain on the computer after(size 7615 bytes, updated 2/20/2001 1:31:00 PM GMT)

Q247684 - OFF2000: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office CD2

reghakr