?? How to uninstall MS Office 2000 SP3 ?????

never thought I would need help with this.
To avoid 'greyware" I need to wipe office 2000 off a machine being redeployed. Went to "add/remove" and hit the switch, it barfed and said it needed the CD, I installed the ORIGINAL Office 2000 CD from whence instance 1 of it was first installed, and it barfed again. Looked through knowledgebase articles, and only find the executable utility for removing leftover fragments from a partial uninstall..... nothing about this particular problem.

apparently once you move to SP3 you've left the legacy portions behind and the setup routine can't execute. But how? what do I do?

is there a 3rd party freeware UNinstaller that will do the trick?

these guys make it too hard.....

Zapp

 

No, that kb article does not describe the symptoms. Let me try again [dontcha know that "barfed" is a software engineering term?]

If I try to uninstall from the Control panel add/remove, it appears to initiate normally, but then it asks for the CD. When I put the CD in [the very same used to originally install MO 2000 sp1 to this rig] it stops saying it cannot find a certain file [ms1 or something similar syntax]. NO getting past this point. no options. Similarly, if I run "setup" from that CD, it stops with an error.
I am hazarding a guess that the changes from SP1 to SP3 are sweeping enough that all the install-routine files have changed, especially as regards Win98 since it is not considered anymore.

Any third party utilities??????

z