That's when Revo Uninstaller went to work, reporting that the trialware had left behind 533 Registry items and 29 files and folders. Each time I clicked Retry, Revo Uninstaller reloaded and the green Office uninstall utility progress bar crept almost-imperceptibly from left to right.įinally, the Office uninstaller reported that the program had been removed successfully. In the case of the balky Office 2007 uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller appeared to help, though I had to click Retry about 352 times during the successful removal. In addition to cleaning up the Registry entries, files, folders, and other refuse that the program's own uninstaller misses, Revo Uninstaller finds and deletes junk files on your PC and performs other cleanup duties. I decided to try the uninstall again using the free Revo Uninstaller utility. An attempt to uninstall the trial version of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 generated an error message. Very early in the uninstall process, an alert popped up reporting Error 1310 and instructing me to verify that I had access to a certain directory.
The irritation really peaks when the product in question is from Microsoft.īefore I could install a bought-and-paid-for copy of Outlook 2007 on my laptop, I had to uninstall the trial version of Office Enterprise 2007 that was preinstalled on the machine's hard drive when I bought it several months ago.
At or near the top of the list of aggravations for new PC owners is the trial version of a program that came preinstalled on the system refusing to uninstall once the trial period expires.