mateo's musings » Technical Preview http://mateometzger.info life, love, linux, etc. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:34:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Uninstall Office 2010 Technical Preview (Mondo) http://mateometzger.info/2009/09/23/uninstall-office-2010-technical-preview-mondo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uninstall-office-2010-technical-preview-mondo http://mateometzger.info/2009/09/23/uninstall-office-2010-technical-preview-mondo/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:49:35 +0000 matt http://mateometzger.info/?p=249 Apparently I’m not the only one who checked out Office 2k10 Technical Preview (Mondo) and was then unable to uninstall it. When trying to remove with Add/Remove Programs, I would just get an error that it was corrupt, and I had to re-install from the CD or file. Re-installation did nothing to fix the problem, but a bit of searching turned up this little gem in a help forum:

To uninstall Office 2010 14.0.4302.1000 if you have an uninstall error message “This product installation has been corrupted”.
The Problem is a missing file in the installation folder of office 2010. Office 2010 has an Setup Controller directory and uses the directory to check the installed components. please check the directory “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\Groove.en-us\”. if you have no “Setup.xml” file there please copy the file from the “Groove.en-us” directory of the source files to this directory and test the uninstallation again.

Many thanks to Vikas Narula at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/ for the amazing fix.

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