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hello,
i have a sony vaio with windows vista, would like to know how to uninstall OneNote 2007. i accently clicked on the ballon on the bottom of my screen and it installed and i really dislike this program. ive tried looking for an uninstall icon in the program files from hard drive, but there was none.
any help would be appreciated,
Leonard
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I am not sure why this has become such a hot button issue. I am sorry that my comments have made it worse.
I added the remove instructions at the top f the thread because I thought it would help people. It was done directly from my uninstalling it for a test. Let me repeat the basics of that instruction, since a piece of it seems to have gotten lost:
From Start --> Control Panel --> Programs and Features, find your version of Office in the list of programs. Click the "Change" link at the top of the list. Wait for Office to do the set up. On the list of options, select "Add or Remove Features". Click Continue. Select OneNote from the list. RIght click it and select "Not Availalbe", then click continue again. Your computer will buzz for a while.... When done, OneNote should be removed from your computer.
Please be sure that you have another printer available to that machine so that you get a new default printer once Send to OneNote is gone.
As for the other question: No - OneNote doesn't slow down my machine. I usually have at least one instance of it up and I don't see any slow down at all. In fact, installing it and getting it set up only takes a minute or two on my machines. I would love to know more about what is on your machines that is causing the slow down.
Some of us do care about OneNote problems. Just because I can't live without it doesn't mean you should use it. I am sorry for the problems this thread has caused.
Why did OneNote just ask to be linked to my system no everything is all messed up. what are you folks doing? How do I remove OneNote. If I remove does it impact my programs?
Hi Martrzzz,
The answer IS a resounding flat BIG NO! Big M's agenda’s is not to make it simple anymore. They start from scratch every time when designing a new version of Windows and the general public is a crying fool to accept it as it comes out or let alone even buy it! What was good, in the past is NO longer supported like Windows XP or have any good part of the newer version of Windows 8. To get anything decent, is to keep the old version and include what else that works with it and also keep the installer CDs, or DVDs so if your PC or notebook crashes for no reason, You can get a new clean install of Windows. If it was that simple we all go back to ANSI BASIC, as then WE the people have that control as so WE can do exactly what we want with our PC without the fear of piracy or to have to spill your beans to register it... Just because Windows XP is not supported, does not mean you toss it out with the rubbish as Big M wants you to believe as by NOT supporting it anymore. In a way, your ignorance or lack thereof, You can fix the problem by deleting out Onenote from your version of MS OFFICE 2007, 2010, or 2013, and not use it at all. Notepad can write your NOTES or memos very easily but you cannot format the text as fonts or colors… If you do, you can use Wordpad, as both are part of Windows from 98, to 7. Notepad is for .txt files anyway and becomes more useful in a lot of ways. Word Pad is found in:
“C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\Wordpad.exe”.
You can also find it on the Start Menu. And to me, since a lot of you are now finding it out, Big M is not going to do anything about Onenote, as so, WHO is twisting your arm to USE IT?
If you all know a few tricks of your own, like I have, you can make what you have work for you instead of against you. In my case, Windows XP I have to use, because of my expensive hardware and neither HP nor Microsoft is not designing new drivers for it. Part of the problem is a lack of PC backups, I just do not MEAN software, I mean in the number of PCs and in the number of internal hard drives and partitions. BECAUSE, it is not putting all of your eggs in one single basket. IF you lose a critical DLL, Windows wont start. With a boot CD or DVD, that can be restored without reregistering it because what else is intact.
What I have, I do have more than three PCs fully loaded with Windows 7 as even my puny Gateway Solo 5150 notebook is my testament from once I got it to what it is now. It had a half baked version of Windows 98 as deaf mute lame duck… No sound, no USB ports working, the CD ROM drive also was not working and a dead irreplaceable battery… It was given to me by my brother on my birthday in 2010. I am surely NOT going to toss THAT out with all of my valued knowledge that a few hundred buck wont fix! I did have to pay $114.00 to find what was wrong with it, but all that did was to get the video GMA drivers working and the CD ROM drive working, and a hundred dollars more for Windows XP Pro, and $85.00 more to get a new internal HDD from a 6 GB to 80 GB. Once I got it all booted up I had the drivers also for its Wireless express card, (I no longer use because I am wired IN), and got my sound through the notebook speakers and got my two USB port as 1.1 speed -???- and I can go on the Internet with a USB to Ethernet RJ45 connection instead. Also I have Microsoft’s Security Essentials protecting it… It is no lame duck any more because I also added a 256 MB memory card as with 64 MB that was in it to get 160 MB of internal memory (HALF of what is installed). Most of you do not care what Big M is doing to your PC behind your back. IF you try to install Windows XP after June 5 of this year they also download a program as Windows Genuine Advantage. In which case is a Virus and has been deactivated… I get no more notifications about it.
How about this one? Instead of a recovery partition in which case is also useless and if use it you get hacked by it! That is also foolish thing to do. The software is obsolete as soon as you activate windows, I rather USE the BOOT CD or DVD to recover from it, it is a hell of a lot quicker! For reference, it has to be on a separate hard disk drive about 20 GB or so. That is easy enough to do as to copy it onto instead of 3 or 4 DVDs. Do it by Windows own copy-paste procedure. Nothing fancy. The true backup of the C partition is to Clone the drive intact and delete out the recovery partition afterwards. THIS gets around of reactivating Windows or go on line to reregister it. Do this every six months. If something goes wrong, use the new clone drive… THAT is a big HA-HA to Big M! You are back in business as you restart Windows… As I have done this many times even with Windows 7. Now one of my notebook PC has a 120 GB SSD and its entire partition is C minus 100 MB for the system partition. Where do I store my Data, my documents, pictures, videos and my installer programs? Surely not on drive letter C on any of my NINE PCs, that is an accident waiting to happen. Externally and on a wired network server, all wired together! HA-AH to any hacker… The trick only ONE PC is used or ON at a time, the rest are backups. That is the way I build a PC as a system, and I do minimal sharing. I that process, I do not care if you can or cannot fix Onenote or scream about it, it is your fault in using it. And reread my past comments about it. It is Virus put there on purpose by Big M!
By the way, If you are smart enough, you can get MS OFFICE 2000 Pro to work with Windows 7 with its search assistant, it is not impossible!!! And have the other four parts left out by OFFICE 20xx Student!! Even to receive and send your own email
An old Adage: “♫Newer is NOT Better when things are left out on purpose♫.”
From Edmond The Hardware Engineer!
Again..I paid for a dell computer with your software and i cannot print two pictures at 10pm....after being forced to click thru ONE NOTE...I still cannot print
Can your company design the way out of a paper bag?
I just want to print 2 pictures at 10pm....and I hate running ONE NOTE - this is carp BIG M. I never heard of one note on windows 8 ...i have to do a search for my word 2013...that i paid for...I like my MAC for design....this new windows machine is not simple.