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).