how to uninstall OneNote

Hi Phillip,

I see you agree with me, I had NO problems in uninstalling One Note, because I have the DAMM CD of MS OFFICE Student 2007, AND... the CD of MS OFFICE 2000 Professional with their CD keys. Yeah, there are plenty of idiots who wont take the time and truble to figure it out for themselves. It depends on the PC and what Version of Windows you have, to use MS Office 2000 Pro. With some finesse you can get all the features of Office 2000 Pro to work with Windows 7 with its Office Assistant of your choosing... That is NOT All, ONCE you copy these two CDs onto any hard disk drive or partition, YOU can execute it to install it from THERE. The reasoning is simple! MS Office 2000 Pro has the help option to 'Fix and Repair' and that can load from anywhere! BE DAMMED the CD AND the DVD drive, It is acient history to me. Its slow, and it limited to 800 MB and the DVD is limited to 4.7 GB when I can have a hard disk drive taking up its drive letter, EVEN if I leave it connected in its 5¼-inch bay, or not! I do not need it in all eight of my PCs consuming its vauled power either as I can install any 3½-inch hard disk drive in its place. Two of my PCs have a SATA DVD and both are taken out because the BIOS does not recognize the programs to install from them. So I stick to IDE CD/DVD RAM drives.

Microsoft does not care for its users in improving on Windows 7 etc in adding to it or keeping what was good with Windows XP and its compatibility and features. ... In a survey that was scheduled that was for Windows 8, they shut me out because I exposed the truth to them and gave me the $30.00 as if I took this survey. Also the rest od the users as you say are really dense ameobea brained, and do not keep their installer type of programs they buy on a hard disk drive or even in their own network server! Then they scream bloody Mary when they get hacked or something glitches on them as where is their real backup? If you can reload or do a "Clean install" of Windows from your own software, then you are halfway there up to me. One backup or even a recovery partition are lame at best, they are really worthless on a small HDD about 40 GB. YOU need its drive space to safely USE Windows with a decent Page file! Windows XP goes TURBO, really QUICK if the page file is about 20 GB, 40 GB or even 60 GB. But Microsoft "Threw you all overboard" because they limited the page file to 4096 MB PER partition!!! TO get the 20 GB, you need five partitions and at least TWO hard disk drives... Also Microsoft threw you again overboard also limiting each hard disk drive to four Partitions!!! I know this as a fact and I told my brother WHY he fried his 366i e Machines' processor!!! BE-CAUSE, he had 256 MB page file and no margin of free space on drive letter C. The most important thing is Memory space, the DDR jazz and next is the Page File (Windows Workspace!!!) Expand both and then whatch the CPU Meter go WAY dpwn to zero! It is fatal to the processor if its pegs at 100% for more than seven minutes for whatever reason... Some processors do not limit its maximum frequency such as AMD and some Intel processors. Some good ones shut down the PC for five minutes before a restart can occur. One PC that runs on Windows XP that I have has 65 GB page file! and that is sixteen partitions internally plus 1 GB VIDEO RAM. And that is not all in it... To each is his own PC but there is a certain parameters we all have to be aware of and get off the starting line and USE our gray matter to keep you PC running Cool, Straight and Normal like an well oiled piece of equipment. Windows 7 have three good things I need by using it: One is I can resize to expand or shrink any partition live; without losing the contents of any partition. Two; It can have all of its page file with no limitation on its Partition of C or any other internal partition!!! Third; It can access double of the DDR mememory up to how many memory slots that are inside the PC. (XP only see a max of 4GB DDR2 Memory and 7  8GB (4 per slot). Also depending on how good is your power supply, you can add more hardware to it. (PCI(e) cards, USB ports etc)! SKY is my limit, but the power supply is the limiting factor, it cannot be an Energy Star PC! You are a fool if it is! 300 Watts barely cuts the mustard, How efficient is it? Does it have a case cooling fan or not? I had to add or reinstall better ones that were in there from the Factory. You surely do not want the PC in on early retirement to the junk pile! A few happened to me and I scrap what is left!

I do not JUST USE the PC; I test it constantly and improve upon it. I am a software and a hardware engineer as to build my own PC and the HDDs I get from what is out there. My latest improvement is my Dell Optiplex PC. I got it cheap refurbished for $119.99 and now worth ten times that. It is not an 'so empty case' anymore!

Edmond The Hardware and Software engineer!

For a self proclaimed hardware and software engineer to misspell 'trouble' is surprising. Also to call others idiots is usually a mark against you and indicates ignorance and intollerance. You assume that those complaining about OneNote are using the same operating systems and copies of Word that you have, and that they haven't kept their installation Cd's. You also assume that, once removed, future updates from Microsoft will not include OneNote with them (hidden among other updates), as several people have already mentioned. So the point is not that it can't be removed, or how difficult or easy it is to do so, but the fact that it is foisted upon customers, without their consent and that many people don't like it, or want it, for whatever their reasons are. Saying things like, "Yeah, there are plenty of idiots who wont take the time and truble to figure it out for themselves." and, "You are a fool if it is!", along with your assumptions and generalisations, make it hard to figure out just who's side you are on here - probably your own!

Dear****Apuharmi,

Oh yeah, you are not the only one who has call me an idiot, because WE all are called idiots because we are all listening to and reading the damm EULA from Microsoft about how to OPERATE and USE Windows as to what garbage they want US to have, to delete out, to update and contend with by accepting to running Windows and what else software they make. Also by your own logic, you also call yourself one. I have a legitimate excuse to BE one and that was because the doctors that have examined me in the past has gotten me my disability as my SSI in 2004. as having meningitis when I was three months old! What is YOUR excuse? Maybe if I had a license to fix and repair someone elses PC I will also be called an idiot. Is it necessary to have one to fix my OWN? I do not think so Baldy! This was contested in 1977 when I graduated from for MY EE degree in electronics by the state of California. Am I an Idiot to contest it and WIN hands down? I do not think so BALDY!

Third case: I sent one of my laptops to Staples Tech services to fix the C drive, the drive that has the C partition on it, as to increase the recovery partition another twelve GB? They muffed it royally by adding a twelve GB partition when I wanted three! This laptop was a trade-in for an Acer Laptop that bombed out on me three times in a row within a month time for the same reason as a blown disk controller chip! Am I an idiot challenging the ability of Staples service department on something I can do myself? I do not think so! I know what Vista can do, and I wanted to see that THEY had the brains to do also? I even paid extra because it was a custom job. Just because he HAS the license and I do not, does not mean he is a smart guy. The trick was relatively simple to me, because since then, I did a lot of resizing the partitions after they had their data on it without losing one byte of data... That includes the recovery partition itself. To me, it has no value to me. The contents of the first two do because its Windows… I really went out hopping mad at the Tech department and did the work myself as soon as I got it home.

The trick is that YOU can expand or shrink any partition, including the C partition using Windows itself to do it with by using Windows own Disk Management! YOU cannot do that with Windows XP! Of course, I was able to copy off the entire recovery partition intact onto another HDD for safe-keeping. I want this to be drive letter D when I had shrunk the C partition by 12 GB from  what was there about 223 GB. And made the D partition the remaining 26 GB that also included the recovery partition. (I later since removed it to be able to use all 26 GB of that partition and I yet have not a need to use it). I got it done successfully and also since removed that drive as it was 250 GB 2½-inch SATA 5400 RPM drive, because its too slow for me. I put that Samsung drive into another external enclosure and traded it for a WD 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA drive, and that also was too slow for me. Since then I added two 2 GB DDR2 memory boards, and cloned the disk for the second time successfully and upgraded to a Seagate 500 GB 7200 RPM drive still as the first two partitions INTACT! The last partition was deleted after the cloning process and that left 276 GB for the D partition I needed, as also to put MY software and organization back on it. The C partition also has a 60 GB page file! And it does not peg the CPU frequency meter at 100% all the time. BY the way, it supports all 26 drive letters and two mounted partitions! See if you can figure that out and without breaking the piggy bank to have someone else to do it; Smarty pants?

Let me see you CAN do that with Windows XP? YOU cannot! In Windows XP, you have to start from scratch and reformat each partition individually once, and consequently lose the data and Windows XP altogether. WHO is calling the kettle black? Or you tell me the procedure EXACTLY HOW? Still you wont have the version of Windows 7 as I have mine without all that HP garbage they call software.

Case #4: My brother has asked me in 2007 to recover the data from the two HDDs that were inside the 366i e Machine tower. HE blew its CPU and its electronics but not the drives. I told him WHY (Reread my last reply). That started the ball rolling. HE then asks me to sell one of my PCs to him, I charged him $350.00 for my advanced version of Windows XP along with the T1090 e Machine PC tower. It originally had a 20 GB HDD and a CD RAM drive brand new in it, as I included a second drive both being 160 GB. Because the version of Windows XP in it, I had the CD of was on three CDs it did not have a service pack I could not use the last 33 GB of the drives, I had to leave it as 137 GB each. Nevertheless, it worked out so well he gave the PC to his daughter and her boyfriend stole it, it was that GOOD! By that money I got a version of Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 on it and a few more Hard disk drives to replace those that were in the T1090, I still have the original 20 GB Seagate IDE drive and it still works as good as new. I can give you a lot more success stories, but they keep mounting UP!

Go right ahead and call me an idiot, I have too many successes to contradict you for me being one and yourself without the knowledge how to fix my own stuff. MY brother is that judge not you, or Microsoft, he has the brains to be a licensed Civil Engineer. My intelligence lies with Pythagoras as; “A=pr^2^”, the math of it all. I astounded a lot more than my three brothers and two professors who were Aircraft engineers, and Texas Instruments by it. My record speaks for itself, and a dad who started it all for me, who could have single handedly won WW II for all of us! Otherwise we would be speaking German instead! I do not think Einstein would say NO to that!

Yours Truly, Edmond, The Hardware & Software engineer.

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Dear Edmond,

Thank you for putting me straight. Although I don't recall calling you an idiot, and my previous posts don't seem to contain those words from me, please accept my sincere apologies and I wish you nothing but the best for your future. I was confusing stupidity and ignorance with other problems. And I'm not bald, but if it makes you happy, you may call me Baldy.

Regards, Apuharmi, alias Baldy (apparently!)