Recovering deleted software

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I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these at
all - either myself or by getting technical help?

thanks
 
"foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these
at
> all - either myself or by getting technical help?
>
> thanks


Do a drive search...Uninstalling the software would not have deleted your
data
 
thanks, that's helped. is it possible to reinstall the office software? as
it was XP, I don't have any discs

"philo" wrote:

>
> "foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> > I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> > program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> > there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these
> at
> > all - either myself or by getting technical help?
> >
> > thanks
>
>
> Do a drive search...Uninstalling the software would not have deleted your
> data
>
>
>
 
Reinstall Office 2000 using your Office 2000 CD.
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MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
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foolishlee wrote:
> I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these
> at
> all - either myself or by getting technical help?
>
> thanks
 
"foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these
> at
> all - either myself or by getting technical help?
>
> thanks

After locating the files, review your backup philosophy.
Having important files on your PC without a regular backup
(weekly?) is extremely shortsighted.
 
"foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2114BF63-5BF2-4776-8971-A0301AA10D43@microsoft.com...
> thanks, that's helped. is it possible to reinstall the office software?
as
> it was XP, I don't have any discs
>



Glad you at least found your data...
You'd of course need the "Office" cd to reinstall it...
however a free alternative would be Open Office

http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.1/index.html
 
wouldn't hurt to
utilize the system
restore feature and
restore the pc to a
time prior to the
add/remove program
occurrence.


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"foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these at
> all - either myself or by getting technical help?
>
> thanks
 
That will not reinstall uninstalled programs.
--
Mike Pawlak


"db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. ." wrote:

> wouldn't hurt to
> utilize the system
> restore feature and
> restore the pc to a
> time prior to the
> add/remove program
> occurrence.
>
>
> --
>
> db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸.
> ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>
>
>
> ..
>
>
> "foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> > I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> > program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> > there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these at
> > all - either myself or by getting technical help?
> >
> > thanks
>
>
 
If you don't have an office cd AND office was preinstalled on your computer
when you purchased it,it might be in a partition setup by the mfg. on a older
HP computer that I owned their was a way to reinstall these programs. If I
remember correctly.
All programs>HP tools>system recovery>install programs that came with your
computer>then a drop down list of these programs>

Your system may have such a feature as well LOOK around.If no luck with this
if you install the free word and excel viewers from Microsoft you will at
least be able to read and print the files already on your system.
Good luck.
--
Mike Pawlak


"foolishlee" wrote:

> I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these at
> all - either myself or by getting technical help?
>
> thanks
 
On Dec 28, 5:05 pm, db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. .
<databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote:

> wouldn't hurt to
> utilize the system
> restore feature and
> restore the pc to a
> time prior to the
> add/remove program
> occurrence.

Wouldn't hurt, but it surely wouldn't help.

Moron
 
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:34:02 -0800, foolishlee
<foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> thanks, that's helped. is it possible to reinstall the office software? as
> it was XP, I don't have any discs


Whether you have disks or not has nothing to do with its being XP.

Are you saying that Office came preinstalled on your computer and you
don't have the installation disks for them? If so, that's the
particular computer package you bought that came that way, and has
nothing to do with Windows XP.

Contact your vendor, and see if he can supply disks or has an
alternative recovery method for you. If he will supply disks he will
probably charge you, but my guess is that he won't do anything and
you're out of luck, short of buying it all over again.

Personally, I would never choose to buy a computer that came with any
kind of preinstalled software (Windows, Office, or anything else)
unless I got installation disks with it.



> "philo" wrote:
>
> >
> > "foolishlee" <foolishlee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:4ECFBE3E-FCF1-4347-9EB8-42083A32E1A7@microsoft.com...
> > > I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> > > program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> > > there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these
> > at
> > > all - either myself or by getting technical help?
> > >
> > > thanks
> >
> >
> > Do a drive search...Uninstalling the software would not have deleted your
> > data
> >
> >
> >

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Thanks for all the help, problem now sorted. MAP and db were both right with
their advice and uncle grumpy lives up to his name. The system restore
worked, presumably as the software was preinstalled.

"MAP" wrote:

> If you don't have an office cd AND office was preinstalled on your computer
> when you purchased it,it might be in a partition setup by the mfg. on a older
> HP computer that I owned their was a way to reinstall these programs. If I
> remember correctly.
> All programs>HP tools>system recovery>install programs that came with your
> computer>then a drop down list of these programs>
>
> Your system may have such a feature as well LOOK around.If no luck with this
> if you install the free word and excel viewers from Microsoft you will at
> least be able to read and print the files already on your system.
> Good luck.
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
> "foolishlee" wrote:
>
> > I've stupidly removed MS Office 2000 and Premium from the remove software
> > program in the control panel. I've now lost all Word, Excel etc files and
> > there's nothing in the recycle bin. Is there any way I can recover these at
> > all - either myself or by getting technical help?
> >
> > thanks
 
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