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"Phantom" installation of Outlook.
Greetings All, Windows XP SP2. I have completed installing on a new computer and have everything running pretty well but have one lingering problem. All the software I am using was used on my old computer. I use Thunderbird and do not use OE or Outlook. I installed Word and Excel from office 97, which I have been using for years. Somehow something from Outlook get installed and is causing problems. It will not let me send e-mail from word or from other programs, such as Lacerte 2008 (this is actually a much more serious problem), because it wants to set up "exchange server" which I can't do of course because Outlook has not actually been installed. I have no idea how it happened, but I assume that in the installation process there is a hidden option - Allow Outlook to Screw Up Your System - which got set. The obvious solution is to uninstall Office and reinstall, but before I do that I want to make sure it doesn't happen again. Also after I uninstall I want to make sure everything is gone before I reinstall again. So I am looking for suggestions on that. It would be even nicer if someone could suggest how I can rid my system of this "phantom" installation of Outlook w/o the trouble of installing and reinstalling. If you can suggest something, I will be suitably grateful. Regards, Bob Taylor philologos at mindspring dot com |
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