Microsoft Office Activation Assistant

Ok, so I recently bought a new laptop and it had Office 2007 trial on it.

I decided to uninstall the trial (I have a full version of 2003 sitting around here that i plan on installing instead). Everything goes smoothly, I even use CCleaner to get rid fo registry remnants.

Then I try to uninstall Office Activation Assistant, which for some befuddling reason appears to be outside the main Office program... except it WONT LET ME UNINSTALL IT WITHOUT OFFICE!

WTF?

So what can I do?

I did find:
-the folder where Activation Assistant lives in Program Files.
-and the hidden folder where apparently its programdata lives ( C:\programdata\{623D32E9-0C62-4453-AD44-98B31F52A5E1})... the installer that doesn't work anymore is in there as well as its DAT file, PAR and RES file (whatever those last two are)

Can I just delete both of those, and use CCLeaner again, and get this crap off my laptop, or will there still be remnants or other problems?

other option is to reinstall Office 2007 trial, then hopefully uninstall Activation Assitant and then uninstall Office again and try to use CCleaner to catch everything remaining... this seems like a big pain but if its the only way, I'll get it.


(and before you ask, no i dont have a clean copy of Vista)

 

Even with your version of Office 2003, you'll need to activate it. So even if you deleted those entries, they'll be replaced when you install 2003. If you have the Student/Teacher edition, MS allows you to install Office 2003 on up to 3 machines. So it shouldn't be a problem.

If you don't activate Office, it goes into "reduced functionality" after 30 days.

 

if i understand what you're saying, the "Activation Assistant" program will also come with my 2003 Professional as well then? My 2003 isn't a trial, it's a full version of Office 2003 (for which i have a product key).
The activation assistant i'm having problems with is for 2007 home + student trial.

 

reinstall Office 2007 and remove AA then O2007 and reinstall 2003... no other way to do this

 

You have to use a special tool from Microsoft that removes all the Office stuff. I had the EXACT same problem when trying to upgrade to Enterprise Edition. Go to Microsoft's website and search for something like "office removal tool" or something along those lines. Let us know if you get it working.

 

I think I have the same problem, are we dealing with this...?