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sean nathan bean
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      7th July 2010
i have never used any version of outlook and would like very much to
delete it from my computer and excise it fro my registry. any chance
there is a script floating around to do so?

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J. P. Gilliver (John)
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      8th July 2010
In message <i10s9f$f5q$(E-Mail Removed)>, sean nathan bean
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>i have never used any version of outlook and would like very much to
>delete it from my computer and excise it fro my registry. any chance
>there is a script floating around to do so?
>
>sean


If you really mean Outlook, it is part of Office; if you run the Office
configuration/installation prog., it will let you change which bits of
Office you have installed. At least, that's the case for Office 97 and
Office 2003, I don't know for later ones.

If you mean Outlook Express, you don't need a script:

Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows
Components (third down on the left), about three screenfuls down is
Outlook Express. Untick (uncheck in USA) it ...

I will admit I haven't tried it; though I don't use OE, I support one or
two people who do, and I keep it installed to look at how to do things
for them. And I'm running XP Home SP3 - I don't know if it's the same in
other versions.
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sean nathan bean
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      8th July 2010
On 7/8/2010 2:55 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <i10s9f$f5q$(E-Mail Removed)>, sean nathan bean
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>> i have never used any version of outlook and would like very much to
>> delete it from my computer and excise it fro my registry. any chance
>> there is a script floating around to do so?
>>
>> sean

>
> If you really mean Outlook, it is part of Office; if you run the Office
> configuration/installation prog., it will let you change which bits of
> Office you have installed. At least, that's the case for Office 97 and
> Office 2003, I don't know for later ones.
>
> If you mean Outlook Express, you don't need a script:
>
> Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows
> Components (third down on the left), about three screenfuls down is
> Outlook Express. Untick (uncheck in USA) it ...
>
> I will admit I haven't tried it; though I don't use OE, I support one or
> two people who do, and I keep it installed to look at how to do things
> for them. And I'm running XP Home SP3 - I don't know if it's the same in
> other versions.


i had uninstalled Office several weeks ago.. then labelled the leftover
C:\workssetup folder... just to see if that gave me any trouble upon
reboot...

three days i ago i simply deleted the renamed workssetup folder

all is well...

now attempting to excise the remaining vestiges of outlook, frontpage
and other office/works crapola from my harddrive and registry...

sean



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smlunatick
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      9th July 2010
On Jul 8, 10:55*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <i10s9f$f5...@news.eternal-september.org>, sean nathan bean
>
> <sean.b...@wizard.is.invalid> writes:
> >i have never used any version of outlook and would like very much to
> >delete it from my computer and excise it fro my registry. any chance
> >there is a script floating around to do so?

>
> >sean

>
> If you really mean Outlook, it is part of Office; if you run the Office
> configuration/installation prog., it will let you change which bits of
> Office you have installed. At least, that's the case for Office 97 and
> Office 2003, I don't know for later ones.
>
> If you mean Outlook Express, you don't need a script:
>
> Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows
> Components (third down on the left), about three screenfuls down is
> Outlook Express. Untick (uncheck in USA) it ...
>
> I will admit I haven't tried it; though I don't use OE, I support one or
> two people who do, and I keep it installed to look at how to do things
> for them. And I'm running XP Home SP3 - I don't know if it's the same in
> other versions.
> --
> J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
>
> "Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better nottry to
> sing." - unknown


FYI: Outlook Express can not truly be removed from XP. Outlook
Express has links to Internet Explorer which can never be completely
removed from XP. You can onlt normally remove the icons / links to
the OE.
 
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
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      9th July 2010
[]
>i had uninstalled Office several weeks ago.. then labelled the leftover
>C:\workssetup folder... just to see if that gave me any trouble upon
>reboot...
>
>three days i ago i simply deleted the renamed workssetup folder
>
>all is well...
>
>now attempting to excise the remaining vestiges of outlook, frontpage
>and other office/works crapola from my harddrive and registry...
>
>sean
>
>
>

If you've still got the Office disc, it might be easier to install, and
then uninstall, it (assuming you can install just Outlook).
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crash into the bay." Christopher Lee (1997). ["It was in _The Serial_."]
 
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
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      9th July 2010
In message
<f074f23c-7725-4be6-bb3b-(E-Mail Removed)>,
smlunatick <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
[]
>FYI: Outlook Express can not truly be removed from XP. Outlook
>Express has links to Internet Explorer which can never be completely
>removed from XP. You can onlt normally remove the icons / links to
>the OE.


That doesn't surprise me!

Unless XPlite can do it: I know it could be done (easily via 98lite
which is from the same people, but I think anyway though with more
difficulty) under '98 - at least, IE could be completely removed, so I
expect OE ditto. But I don't know for XP.
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"One of my dearest memories is playing the leader of a gang of gay Hell's
Angels
thundering across the Golden Gate bridge on a motorbike in fog, wearing full
Nazi regalia with a young man in a purple dress on the pillion petrified we'd
crash into the bay." Christopher Lee (1997). ["It was in _The Serial_."]
 
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smlunatick
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      12th July 2010
On Jul 9, 11:24*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
<G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message
> <f074f23c-7725-4be6-bb3b-f22482b62...@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,smlunat ick <yves...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> []
>
> >FYI: *Outlook Express can not truly be removed from XP. *Outlook
> >Express has links to Internet Explorer which can never be completely
> >removed from XP. *You can onlt normally remove the icons / links to
> >the OE.

>
> That doesn't surprise me!
>
> Unless XPlite can do it: I know it could be done (easily via 98lite
> which is from the same people, but I think anyway though with more
> difficulty) under '98 - at least, IE could be completely removed, so I
> expect OE ditto. But I don't know for XP.
> --
> J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
>
> "One of my dearest memories is playing the leader of a gang of gay Hell's
> Angels
> thundering across the Golden Gate bridge on a motorbike in fog, wearing full
> Nazi regalia with a young man in a purple dress on the pillion petrified we'd
> crash into the bay." Christopher Lee (1997). ["It was in _The Serial_."]


IE is never really removed. XP needs the core of IE to run! You can
only remove the click-able icons / links.
 
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J. P. Gilliver (John)
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      14th July 2010
In message
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smlunatick <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
[]
>IE is never really removed. XP needs the core of IE to run! You can
>only remove the click-able icons / links.


Are you quite sure of that? There may be bits of code that are common to
XP and IE, but that's all. Certainly under '98, IE could be completely
removed - the 98lite people [http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html] even had
a utility called IEradicator, which certainly did more than just remove
icons and links. (It wasn't just for IE-haters: it helped remove the IE
3 or 4 that came with '98, or IE5, which made an installation of later
versions go more cleanly.) Doesn't work on XP, though XPlite (not free,
though the trial version - which works indefinitely - does, but I don't
know if that covers IE) does, I think.

Some compiled help files use a sort of HTML that requires a couple of
DLLs from IE to interpret them.
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      16th July 2010
On 7/8/2010 2:55 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <i10s9f$f5q$(E-Mail Removed)>, sean nathan bean
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>> i have never used any version of outlook and would like very much to
>> delete it from my computer and excise it fro my registry. any chance
>> there is a script floating around to do so?
>>
>> sean

>
> If you really mean Outlook, it is part of Office; if you run the Office
> configuration/installation prog., it will let you change which bits of
> Office you have installed. At least, that's the case for Office 97 and
> Office 2003, I don't know for later ones.
>
> If you mean Outlook Express, you don't need a script:
>
> Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows
> Components (third down on the left), about three screenfuls down is
> Outlook Express. Untick (uncheck in USA) it ...
>
> I will admit I haven't tried it; though I don't use OE, I support one or
> two people who do, and I keep it installed to look at how to do things
> for them. And I'm running XP Home SP3 - I don't know if it's the same in
> other versions.


Outlook Express never had an Add/Remove on my machine... i've never ever
allowed it to install on any machine i've owned since first going online
back in 1994...

I rarely use IE... and don't really care if it quits working...

i've been editing out all references to Outlook, or Outlook Express from
my registry...

all's still working quite nicely...

sean



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J. P. Gilliver (John)
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      16th July 2010
In message <i1q1s8$pbo$(E-Mail Removed)>, sean nathan bean
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
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>Outlook Express never had an Add/Remove on my machine... i've never
>ever allowed it to install on any machine i've owned since first going
>online back in 1994...


Did you somehow prevent it installing when you installed Windows then?
>
>I rarely use IE... and don't really care if it quits working...


(ditto)
>
>i've been editing out all references to Outlook, or Outlook Express
>from my registry...


including msimn.exe, which is what the OE executable is called? (By
default, it's "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe", and starts
in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%.)
>
>all's still working quite nicely...
>
>sean
>
>
>

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