Uninstall Outlook 2000

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I would like to uninstall Outlook completely (program and
all!). I went to Office setup and disabled Outlook (I'm
using Outlook Express and don't need the extra functions
of Outlook 2000). But, the program files are still there
and I don't know which files can be deleted without
causing harm to MS Office itself.

The real problem is that in Excel, sending a sheet in the
body of the email works fine (going through Outlook
Express), but when trying to attach it to an email it goes
through Outlook 2000 and I don't want that to happen. I
want to continue using Outlook Express for everything.

Thank you,

Mark
 
Go to the control panel, open up Add/Remove Programs, find Microsoft Outlook
in the list, click remove and it should uninstall it for you. Just don't
try deleting all the Outlook files manually, as that could make things
messy. Good luck.

- Justin Hensz
 
Mark said:
I would like to uninstall Outlook completely (program and
all!). I went to Office setup and disabled Outlook (I'm
using Outlook Express and don't need the extra functions
of Outlook 2000). But, the program files are still there
and I don't know which files can be deleted without
causing harm to MS Office itself.

The real problem is that in Excel, sending a sheet in the
body of the email works fine (going through Outlook
Express), but when trying to attach it to an email it goes
through Outlook 2000 and I don't want that to happen. I
want to continue using Outlook Express for everything.

Thank you,

Mark
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How are you trying to attach it to an email? If you are using the
"send to" functionality, you'll need to make sure that Outlook Express
is your default mail client. To check this, Tools, Internet Options
(from IE), then select the "Programs" tab. Make sure Outlook Express
is selected for e-mail, and I suspect that will do the trick.
Otherwise, simply create your message in Outlook Express, and attach
from there.

Sorry I'm not sure what specifically you can remove from your system
to disable Outlook without breaking Office (other than Outlook.exe, of
course), hopefully my advice will help out and save you the bother!

Best of luck :)
-Scott L. Grimes
 
Justin Hensz said:
Go to the control panel, open up Add/Remove Programs, find Microsoft
Outlook in the list, click remove and it should uninstall it for you.
Just don't try deleting all the Outlook files manually, as that could
make things messy. Good luck.
Click to expand...

If Outlook was installed as part of Office, it won't appear as a separate
entry in Add/Remove Programs.
 
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"Mark" <[email protected]> wrote in

How are you trying to attach it to an email? If you are using the
"send to" functionality, you'll need to make sure that Outlook Express
is your default mail client. To check this, Tools, Internet Options
(from IE), then select the "Programs" tab. Make sure Outlook Express
is selected for e-mail, and I suspect that will do the trick.
Otherwise, simply create your message in Outlook Express, and attach
from there.

Sorry I'm not sure what specifically you can remove from your system
to disable Outlook without breaking Office (other than Outlook.exe, of
course), hopefully my advice will help out and save you the bother!

Best of luck :)
-Scott L. Grimes
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There are two buttons you can use in Excel to send email.
There's the normal email button and another one that sends
the sheet as an attachment (it's not there by default, you
have to customize it). It used to work just fine until I
installed Outlook and now that I'm trying to keep
everything with Outlook Express (which is the default mail
handler again). The first button works again just fine,
but it's the second one (with the attachment) that still
wants to go to Outlook. [sigh]

I did try all everything you mentioned already...to no
avail.

Thanks for your help anyway! I appreciate it. :-)
 
-----Original Message-----


If Outlook was installed as part of Office, it won't appear as a separate
entry in Add/Remove Programs.
Click to expand...

Yes, that's right! It does not appear as a separate
item. I tried that first. I've even tried some free
uninstaller programs from the net and they seem to rely on
the information from the Add/Remove Program entries, so
they were no help. I think the only alternative will be
to buy a true uninstaller program and see if that will
work.

Thanks!
 
-----Original Message-----
"Mark" <[email protected]> wrote in

How are you trying to attach it to an email? If you are using the
"send to" functionality, you'll need to make sure that Outlook Express
is your default mail client. To check this, Tools, Internet Options
(from IE), then select the "Programs" tab. Make sure Outlook Express
is selected for e-mail, and I suspect that will do the trick.
Otherwise, simply create your message in Outlook Express, and attach
from there.

Sorry I'm not sure what specifically you can remove from your system
to disable Outlook without breaking Office (other than Outlook.exe, of
course), hopefully my advice will help out and save you the bother!

Best of luck :)
-Scott L. Grimes
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There _has_ to be some entry in the registry that was not
changed back when Outlook 2000 was "uninstalled" with the
MS Office setup program. Does anyone know how to change
the registry to point it back to Outlook Express? I've
tried to look around the registry for something like that,
but can't find anything. Does anyone know more specifics
about the registry entries and how the MS Office setup
program modifies it concerning Outlook 2000?

Thanks,

Mark
 
Mark said:
Yes, that's right! It does not appear as a separate
item. I tried that first. I've even tried some free
uninstaller programs from the net and they seem to rely on
the information from the Add/Remove Program entries, so
they were no help. I think the only alternative will be
to buy a true uninstaller program and see if that will
work.
Click to expand...

There is are programs from Microsoft that will remove all traces of Office
from your machine. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=252566 and
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=252613.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=258297 is also relevent, as is
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304465.
 
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