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ACC97: How to Completely Uninstall Microsoft Access 97

Article ID: 163997

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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SUMMARY

When you run the Microsoft Access Setup program in Maintenance mode, and you click the Remove All button, some Microsoft Access files are not removed from your computer.

This behavior occurs because Setup does not remove any files that may be used by other applications.

This article lists which files and folders Microsoft Access 97 leaves on your hard disk after you uninstall the program.

MORE INFORMATION

In order to completely uninstall Microsoft Access 97 from your computer, manually remove the files and folders listed below. Before you begin, consider the following additional information:
  • If you remove any files that are used by other applications, those applications may not work correctly.
  • Depending on the type of installation you performed when you ran Setup for Microsoft Access 97 (Typical, Custom, Run from CD-ROM), some of the files listed may not be on your hard disk.
  • Depending on your operating system, some of the files may be installed in your \Winnt\System32 folder instead of the \Windows\System folder.
  • You may also need to remove the files DAO3032.DLL and DAO350.DLL from the Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO folder.
  • In Microsoft Windows 95 or later or Windows NT version 4.0, you may need to perform the following steps in order to see all of the files listed:

    1. Open My Computer or start Windows Explorer.
    2. On the View menu, click Options.
    3. Click the View tab.
    4. Click Show All Files, and click to clear the "Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that are registered" check box. Click OK.
  • If you want to see a list of the Windows registry keys created by Microsoft Access 97, run the following command line, where <Drive> is the drive letter of your CD-ROM or diskette drive: 
          <Drive>:Setup /g c:\log.txt

    This command creates a log file in your root folder that contains the names of all the files installed and the registry keys created by your Microsoft Access 97 installation.

    WARNING: Editing the registry incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall Windows 95 or Windows NT. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect editing of the registry can be solved. Edit the registry at your own risk.
Following is a list of files and folders installed by Microsoft Access 97 that remain on your computer when you run Setup and click Remove All. 
 Folders
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  C:\WINDOWS\ODBC
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office
  C:\WINDOWS\ODBC\Data Sources

 Files in the Windows Folder
 ---------------------------

  MSO97.DLL        ODBC.INI         ODBCINST.INI     MS097.ACL

 Files in the Windows\System Folder
 ----------------------------------

  12520437.CPX     12520850.CPX     ACCWIZ.DLL       COMCAT.DLL
  COMMTB32.DLL     CONVDSN.EXE      DBNMPNTW.DLL     DOCOBJ.DLL
  DRVSSRVR.HLP     DS16GT.DLL       DS32GT.DLL       HLINK.DLL
  HLINKPRX.DLL     INETCPL.CPL      JETDEF35.HLP     JETERR35.CNT
  JETERR35.HLP     JETSQL35.CNT     JETSQL35.HLP     MFCANS32.DLL
  MISC2.SRG        MSCAL.CNT        MSCAL.DEP        MSCAL.HLP
  MSCAL.OCX        MSCPXL32.DLL     MSEXCL35.DLL     MSJET35.DLL
  MSJINT35.DLL     MSJTER35.DLL     MSOTHUNK.DLL     MSRD2X35.DLL
  MSREPL35.DLL     MSSTKPRP.DLL     MSTEXT35.DLL     MSVCRT40.DLL
  MSXBSE35.DLL     ODBC16GT.DLL     ODBC32.DLL       ODBC32GT.DLL
  ODBCAD32.EXE     ODBCCP32.CPL     ODBCCP32.DLL     ODBCCR32.DLL
  ODBCINST.CNT     ODBCINST.HLP     ODBCINT.DLL      ODBCJET.CNT
  ODBCJET.HLP      ODBCJI32.DLL     ODBCJT32.DLL     ODBCJTNW.CNT
  ODBCJTNW.HLP     ODBCTL32.DLL     ODBCTRAC.DLL     ODDBSE32.DLL
  ODEXL32.DLL      ODFOX32.DLL      ODTEXT32.DLL     OLEAUT32.DLL*
  OLEPRO32.DLL     REGWIZ.EXE*      RICHED20.DLL     SQLSRV32.DLL
  STDOLE2.TLB      SYSTEM.MDW**     URLMON.DLL       VBAJET32.DLL
  VBAR332.DLL      VEN2232.OLB      WININET.DLL

 Files in the Windows\Fonts Folder
 ---------------------------------

  hatten.ttf       tahoma.ttf       tahomabd.ttf

 Additional Files Not Removed
 ----------------------------

  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MSCREATE.DIR
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\CUSTOM.DIC
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSCREATE.DIR
  C:\WINDOWS\ODBC\MSCREATE.DIR

 If the Dataacc.exe was run from the Data Access folder in the ValuPack,
 the following files are not removed by the Remove All option of Microsoft
 Access setup:

   \Windows\System\msexch35.dll
   \Windows\System\mspdox35.dll
   \Windows\System\odpdx32.dll

 Additionally, if Webpost.exe was run from the Webpost folder in the
 ValuPack (Web Publishing Wizard), the following file is not removed by the
 Remove All option of Microsoft Access Setup:

  \Windows\System\Webpost.dll

 * These files replaced older versions.

 ** System.mdw stores security information for your database. If you delete
    this file you may lose any security that has been setup for your
    database. Deleting this file may also make your database inaccessible.

REFERENCES

For more information about removing files from your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

158658 OFF97: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office 97



For more information about running the Setup program with the /g command-line option, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

148849 ACC95: What Is Setup/G? What Does the Log File Look Like?

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