Win 8 on a new Acer Aspire V5-571 Laptop, and Office 2010 removing.

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:50:08 +1100, "Rob" wrote
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On 7/12/2012 8:38 AM, BillW50 wrote:
On 12/6/2012 3:33 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:18:15 +1100, wrote
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On 7/12/2012 7:28 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:18:43 -0600, wrote
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On 12/6/2012 2:11 PM, Mick wrote:
Hi all,
I am buying a new Acer Aspire V5-571 Laptop.
With Win 8 on it.

The spec says it has Microsoft Office 2010 preloaded and to purchase
a key if wanting to use it.
I have a paid for Office 2007 full suite of programmes and a key for
it, I will remove it from my older Win XP computer.
Will Office 2010 be fully installed and require removing before I
install my Office 2007, or does it install only when it is activated?

I expect there will be some crap programmes on it, if anyone knows
the
Acer Aspire V5-571 are there any I should not remove?
Thanks for any help,
Mick IOW.

I don't know why Microsoft has done it this way, but you can only have
one version of Office per OS.

Not true. The only problem I've encountered with installing multiple
copies of Office is that you can't run multiple copies of Outlook.

That said, I seem to recall you need to do them from oldest to newest,
like with Windows versions, so I don't know if the OP can install the
older version of Office since the new version is already installed.
And since the OP doesn't intend to use the newer version, there is no
reason not to uninstall it first.

Well how come then, on a x64 system, having 2007 installed then update
to 2010 it needs to uninstall 2007 before accepting 2010.

Well I don't know. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2121447 where
MS tells you how to do it.

My best guess is that the 2007 Office was 32-bit and the 2010 Office
was 64-bit, because MS says:

"There is no support for running 64-bit versions of Office 2010 suites
or programs with any 32-bit version of Office on the same computer. The
Setup program will detect that you have previous 32-bit versions of
Office programs on your computer and will require that they are removed
before you can install Office 2010 64-bit."

I know you can't have more than one version of Office 95, 97, 2000, XP,
or 2003 on the same Windows. I am not sure of 2007, 2010, or 2012.

and why would you want to?

For me, it is more about compatibility testing with several products
I'm involved with than anything. I'm not sure why you would do it
otherwise.

--
Zaphod

"The best Bang since the Big One" - Eccentrica Gallumbits

On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:36:40 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 12/6/2012 5:15 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Mick wrote:
Hi all,
I am buying a new Acer Aspire V5-571 Laptop. With Win 8 on it.

The spec says it has Microsoft Office 2010 preloaded and to purchase a
key if wanting to use it.
I have a paid for Office 2007 full suite of programmes and a key for
it, I will remove it from my older Win XP computer. Will Office 2010
be fully installed and require removing before I install my Office
2007, or does it install only when it is activated?

I expect there will be some crap programmes on it, if anyone knows the
Acer Aspire V5-571 are there any I should not remove? Thanks for any
help,
Mick IOW.

2010 and 2007... I dont know. However... Office 2010 and 2003 both work
just fine on my 7-32 laptop. It came with 2010 and I later installed
2003. I did do extensive mod to the registry in order to make the
default 2003. I don't like Ribbon Ware at all but have to have it for
Outlook and Communicator.

Microsoft says a lot of things that isn't really true. For example MS
says you can't boot Windows (XP in the case I am thinking of) from an
USB drive. You can, but it takes about three pages of registry hacks to
make it happen. Later I think people made this mod seamless, although I
never tried them.

"can't do" in the computer world often means "we don't support".

On 7 Dec 2012 15:58:25 GMT, "ray" wrote in article
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:36:40 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 12/6/2012 5:15 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Mick wrote:
Hi all,
I am buying a new Acer Aspire V5-571 Laptop. With Win 8 on it.

The spec says it has Microsoft Office 2010 preloaded and to purchase a
key if wanting to use it.
I have a paid for Office 2007 full suite of programmes and a key for
it, I will remove it from my older Win XP computer. Will Office 2010
be fully installed and require removing before I install my Office
2007, or does it install only when it is activated?

I expect there will be some crap programmes on it, if anyone knows the
Acer Aspire V5-571 are there any I should not remove? Thanks for any
help,
Mick IOW.

2010 and 2007... I dont know. However... Office 2010 and 2003 both work
just fine on my 7-32 laptop. It came with 2010 and I later installed
2003. I did do extensive mod to the registry in order to make the
default 2003. I don't like Ribbon Ware at all but have to have it for
Outlook and Communicator.

Microsoft says a lot of things that isn't really true. For example MS
says you can't boot Windows (XP in the case I am thinking of) from an
USB drive. You can, but it takes about three pages of registry hacks to
make it happen. Later I think people made this mod seamless, although I
never tried them.

"can't do" in the computer world often means "we don't support".

Well, in the case of booting XP to a USB drive, it was a bit more than
that. The USB drivers needed to be configured as critical boot devices
which isn't a trivial matter in XP. Though, as I understand it, things
are different in Win8 though I haven't tried it myself.

--
Zaphod

Adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships,
often thought to be completely out to lunch.