Was trying to uninstall office xp standard off my laptop, it won't let me. When I go to control panel>add/remove programs and the list shows up as office xp standard I select it, it gives a popup asking are you sure, I click yes, and the next popup is that "This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator." This is my personal computer, and I'm the only user/administrator account on here. Running windows XP if it matters. This laptop's harddrive crashed a few months after I got it, returned it for a new one, and was shipped the reboot cds for them, dunno anything about the whole dual boot thing. Thats the only thing I can think of that could apply to me not having administrator rights. Is there any way I can get this shit completely uninstalled, other than manually?

10/7/2007 11:58:19 PM

tried ork yet?

10/8/2007 10:10:17 AM

Tried it, get the somewhat same message when I execute it,"The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation." Does State's ITD do free tech service on students' personal computers?

10/8/2007 3:25:07 PM

are you not logged in as administrator?

10/8/2007 3:25:58 PM

I am the administrator, checked my security policies, theres only two user accounts, me and guest.

10/8/2007 3:59:36 PM

being an administrator and logging in as administrator aren't the same thing. get rid of the "welcome scren" thru control panel, users. log out, log in as administrator, I imagine the password is probably blank

10/8/2007 4:00:45 PM

Thanks, that worked sorta. Now logged in as the administrator and seen the settings the way they were when I got the computer, but I still get the same error message when trying to remove office, "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation." WTH?

10/8/2007 4:16:06 PM

Damn, that's odd.. I actually had something similar happen to a computer here at work and used system restore to just roll it back a long ass ways before office was installed.

10/8/2007 4:17:39 PM

Hah, I think office was installed right after I got it about 4 years ago. Thats gonna be a hell of a system restore. Gonna reboot and see if any security settings get reset, but I doubt it.

Nope, so the phantom administrator has me on lockdown.

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

10/8/2007 4:19:49 PM