This is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway! Is it possible to uninstall certain elements of Office 2000, and only keep what I use? (i.e. Word, Excel) Since there are no patches available for the security vulnerabilities, I'm hoping to limit the threat by removing the elements I don't use.
"cruzsgal" <cruzsgal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B3429BF7-94DB-481C-BC3F-F8B3B1878828@microsoft.com... > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway! > Is it possible to uninstall certain elements of Office 2000, and only keep > what I use? (i.e. Word, Excel) > Since there are no patches available for the security vulnerabilities, I'm > hoping to limit the threat by removing the elements I don't use. Run setup, custom install and tell it to uninstall what you don't want. Rest will stay OK.
Your underlying presumption is incorrect. Daddy "cruzsgal" <cruzsgal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B3429BF7-94DB-481C-BC3F-F8B3B1878828@microsoft.com... > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway! > Is it possible to uninstall certain elements of Office 2000, and only keep > what I use? (i.e. Word, Excel) > Since there are no patches available for the security vulnerabilities, I'm > hoping to limit the threat by removing the elements I don't use.
cruzsgal wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway! > Is it possible to uninstall certain elements of Office 2000, and only > keep what I use? (i.e. Word, Excel) > Since there are no patches available for the security > vulnerabilities, I'm hoping to limit the threat by removing the > elements I don't use. Here, in order, are the O2K security patches I have installed: o2ksr1a.exe (on my O2K install disk) sp2upd.exe O2kSp3.exe office2000-KB947361-FullFile-ENU.exe office2000-kb920906-fullfile-enu.exe office2000-KB943990-FullFile-ENU.exe office2000-KB944425-FullFile-ENU.exe office2000-KB958435-FullFile-ENU.exe They are all available at the microsoft site, and I would install them. My experience was that a Google search is the best way to find them. On-site search was useless, but maybe that has changed.
In article <B3429BF7-94DB-481C-BC3F-F8B3B1878828@microsoft.com>, Cruzsgal wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway! > Is it possible to uninstall certain elements of Office 2000, and only keep > what I use? (i.e. Word, Excel) > Since there are no patches available for the security vulnerabilities, I'm > hoping to limit the threat by removing the elements I don't use. Not a dumb question at all. It's been quite a while since I used O2000, but I think you can run Setup, choose a custom install, then change the features you want to remove from "Installed on my computer" to "Not available" (or similar wording).