Hi all. A few weeks ago I purchased a second hand laptop that was loaded with Vista Premium and had Office 2003 Pro installed. The other day I had to write a document and so I opened Word. No sooner had I started using Word when I am presented with a nag box that told me that it is an illegal copy, but after I close that box it seems to work O.K. So I decided to do the right thing and uninstall Office 2003 Pro...............in a pigs ear! Office 2003 Pro does not have it's own uninstall function. Windows Vista Add/Remove will not remove it either. I also tried to remove it in Safe Mode only to be told that the something or other removal (tool?) is missing. It does not matter what I try, I can not uninstall it. Since then I have searched the Web to get answers and during that search I found that the key used for this program had been blacklisted by Microsoft as it is the most used pirated key....... Great, I am now stuck with this illegal copy! Any suggestion? Regards Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia

Here is a Office 2003 Uninstaller http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/o...

Thanks Syzygy I will give it a go in the next few days as time permits. I will get back to you with the results either way. Regards Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia

Hi there Syzygy. Well I downloaded at your suggested site and installed the Resources kit (or whatever you call it) and after it was installed I tried to use it to un-install Office 2003 Pro using the uninstall wizard. Three times the process went as far as a window labeled "performing clean up task" and each time the progress bar only went to about 1/4 distance before the program froze. So I loaded the wizard and tried for partial un- install of anything and every thing. Again each time it only went to about 1/4. The next thing that I did was to close the Resources program and try for an Add/Remove from Vista it's self, and would you believe, it worked a treat. So it looks like whatever file was missing from the Vista uninstaller had now been replaced by the installation of the Resources kit. So I guess I will have to mark your advice as being a good one (if I do not stuff it up again). Thanks very much. Regards Thinking hurts my head that's why I live in West Australia