Chad,

Thanks for the lead. The cleanup utility downloaded and installed.
When I ran it, it listed a whole raft of "Microsoft Office"
components. I selected all of them and removed them. Then rebooted
and went back to 'remove programs' but had the same result as before.

- Ed Stevens


On Sep 17, 7:09 pm, "Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> WICUhttp://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_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1190073544.747243.148510@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
>
> > 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.