For months now, I’ve been running Office 2007 Beta. I’ve been planning on upgrading to the released version on my work computer but I’ve been putting it off.
Well, yesterday, Windows Update installed an update and my version of Excel started crashing. I have an important spreadsheet that I need to update every day, but every time I tried to save it crashed. Sigh (rolleyes.gif)…
So, I decided to install Office 2007. I get it for free (since I work for Microsoft). I decided to let it run overnight, but when I got to the office this morning it said there was an incompatibilty with Windows Powershell, which I first had to uninstall. So, I shut down the installation (urgh) and went to uninstall Windows Powershell. But, that program had no uninstall feature.
I went to Add/Remove programs, and guess what? There was no uninstall there, either! So, basically, in order to install this software that I need, I first have to uninstall a program that I can’t uninstall.
Of course, Office 2007 installation didn’t fail completely. It did manage to remove my previous Beta version of Office 2007. I did a System Restore to roll back to before when I installed Office 2007, but that didn’t work. Word and Excel are there but they don’t load up (they can’t find a file and subsequently crash). So the situation is this: I have no version of Office 2007 running (Beta or Release version), I can’t uninstall the piece of software that is standing in the way, and it takes forever to reinstall Office 2007.
I decided to remove the registry key for Powershell. I couldn’t get it entirely removed; there is an error message that is not helpful — "Could not remove registry key". Gee, thanks.
So, I’m trying to reinstall Office 2007. Hopefully it will work.