Hi Ed--

Download the Win Installer Cleanup Utility--at bottom of link below. This
gets rid of corrupt registry strings, .dlls that might interfere with
uninstall and subsequent install.

WICU
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

You just get a box to highlight anything associated with your current Office
programs and highlight all of them, and one by one delete. Then see if you
can uninstall Office Student.

Let me know how that goes.

Good luck,

CH

"EdStevens" <quetico_man@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Running Vista Home Premium on a new HP Pavillion 6000
>
> Want to uninstall Office Home and Student 2007 before installing
> Office Enterprise 2007.
>
> Select Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Uninstall a
> program
>
> Select "Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007"
>
> Select "Uninstall"
>
> Screen goes black for a few seconds, then comes back with User Account
> control asking if I want to continue.
>
> Select "Continue", screen goes black for a few seconds, then comes
> back, and nothing more happens. No uninstall wizard, indication of
> any activity, and after many minutes, Office Home and Student 2007 is
> still on the list of installed programs.
>