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Microsoft Office includes several programs, including Word, Excel and Outlook. Uninstalling only one of them is fairly easy using Office Setup.
I have a new PC with Vista on it. I have installed MS Office 2003. I do not want to use Outlook. I'd rather use Windows mail which came on the PC. How do I uninstall just the Outlook program? When I go to add/remove programs I have to delete the whole MS Office edition.
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Actually it is a tad confusing, I agree. We tend to think of Outlook as a standalone program, and as such would expect to find it listed individually in Add/Remove.
The problem is, from Office Setup's point of view, it's not a program.
It's a feature.
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I'll be mixing Office 2007 and Office 2003 here, but the concepts apply to both.
The short version is that Outlook is considered a "feature" of the larger Microsoft Office package. That means that in order to uninstall it, we'll Change the configuration of Office.
In Vista, that means in Control Panel, Programs and Features, we locate and right click on Microsoft Office's entry:
Note that one of the options is to Change the installation. Click on that.
Microsoft Office setup will run, and offer you this choice:
Make sure that Add or Remove Features is selected, and press Next:
At this point you'll see all the major components (or "features") of Microsoft Office listed, with checkboxes indicating which are currently installed. To remove one, simply clear its checkbox, and press Next. That should remove that component.
I'll also leave you with this thought: consider not uninstalling it at all. Outlook in particular is benign - it doesn't do anything except take up some disk space unless you actually use it. In the grand scheme of things, it might be simpler to just let sleeping programs ... er, features ... lie.
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Can I uninstall Outlook and reinstall it? For 2 weeks now there have been pop up windows asking for password which are already in the program. Do I have to uninstall it? Will I have to change the registry or something like that (don't know much). Your help would be very much appreciated because I don't get all the e-mails I should receive.
Sincerely.
28-May-2011
Posted by: Lucie at May 27, 2011 5:13 PM
I just post a question about uninstall and reistall Outlook. I forgot to mention that it runs on Windows XP
Posted by: Lucie at May 27, 2011 5:16 PMI run vista and my issue is that I tried to uninstall office trial version but in the middle of the installation I stopped it. Now. I can't install office 2007. The main thing I want to do is to somehow save my contacts, tasks and calendar information. Please advise. Thank you
15-Oct-2011
Outlook 2010 all of a sudden will not receive or send. Error message indicates POP3 and SMTP servers cannot be located and I should contact my ISP. ISP remoted in to Outlook in safe mode, tried a few changes, and still could not get it to work. They suggested I contact me security provider to check for a virus in Outlook or to see if there is something in security preventing Outlook from working. Security provider suggested I first uninstall Outlook and then reinstall. I originally downloaded Microsoft Office 2010, but I have a backup disk. Will I be able to just reinstall the Outlook 2010 portion? Also, will I need a product key if I have a disk ... There is no product key on the packaging. Thanks!
24-Nov-2011
Thanks for sharing this post.. you can also removing outlook through windows components wizard.. click -> start->select the Control Panel->double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon->When the window pops up, click on the "Add/Remove Windows Components" icon at the right side of the window. The Windows Component Wizard will appear->Scroll down the list of components up to Outlook Express. Uncheck the box next to the icon and click Next->finally click finish .. once process has completed..
Posted by: Microsoft Help at February 21, 2012 2:08 AM