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Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
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Warning The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is provided "as is" to help resolve installation problems for programs that use Microsoft Windows Installer. If you use this utility, you may have to reinstall other programs. Caution is advised. We recommend that you do not use this utility with 2007 Office system products. For help removing installations of 2007 Office system products, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
928218 (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/ ) How to uninstall the 2007 Office system if you cannot uninstall it by using the "Add or Remove Programs" feature.
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SUMMARYWhen you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installa...
loadTOCNode(1, 'summary'); When you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installation suddenly fails. Now you are left with a partly installed program. You try to install the program again, but you are unsuccessful. Or, maybe you have problems trying to remove an old program because the installation files are corrupted.
Do not worry. Windows Installer CleanUp Utility might be able to help. You can use the utility to remove installation information for programs that were installed by using Windows Installer. Be aware that Windows Installer CleanUp Utility will not remove the actual program from your computer. However, it will remove the installation files so that you can start the installation, upgrade, or uninstall over.
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Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
loadTOCNode(2, 'summary'); We have updated Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. This version of Windows Installer CleanUp Utility works correctly in all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. If you have an earlier version installed on your computer, we recommend that you download and install this latest version.
You must be logged on to Windows with a user account that is a computer administrator to run Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. For more information about how to install and run Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, see the "More Information" section.
You can download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility from the Microsoft Download Center:
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119591 (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119591/ ) How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services
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MORE INFORMATIONFor more information about how to install, use, and troubleshoot Windows Install...
loadTOCNode(1, 'moreinformation'); For more information about how to install, use, and troubleshoot Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, see the "Contents of the Readme.txt file" section.
When you use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can perform the following functions:
- Select one or more programs that were installed by Windows Installer from the Windows Installer CleanUp dialog box.
To do this, select the programs that you want in the Installed Products list in the Windows Installer CleanUp dialog box. After you make this selection, the utility removes only Windows Installer configuration information that is related to those programs.
- Remove all Windows Installer information associated with the selected programs. This includes the entries for the programs in the Add Or Remove Programs item in Control Panel. Be aware that only the Installer information for that particular program is removed, not the files.
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does not perform the following functions:
- Remove Windows Installer
- Remove files of any programs that are installed by Windows Installer, such as Microsoft Office 2003
If you use this utility to remove Windows Installer configuration information for your program and you plan to reinstall the program, you should reinstall the program in the same folder where you originally installed it. This prevents duplication of files on your hard disk or disks.