Re: [Unattended] Symantec Fax Starter Edition

[Justin Beckley]

I took your advice and rummaged through the office 2K install log for 
anything that contained "fax".  I found a couple of candidates and 
decided to try them out.  I left the ADDLOCAL=ALL, and just added 
REMOVE= ... switch.  Low and behold it works.  To remove Symantec Fax 
from the Office 2k install, just add REMOVE=WinFax after the 
ADDLOCAL=ALL statement.  Thanks for the advice.

Justin Beckley

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

Justin Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 

I was wondering if anyone knew how to uninstall/disable the
"Symantec Fax Starter Edition" that shows up as a printer.  I can't
tell what it gets installed with, nor do I know an easy way to
uninstall it.  Any suggestions??
   

It is a component of Office 2000.  See
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=195679>.
It is probably being installed because of the "ADDLOCAL=ALL" switch
which we use to install Office.  I generally like this switch because
it prevents Office from randomly deciding it needs some file from its
installation media, which gets annoying fast (especially for laptop
users).
You could try removing ADDLOCAL=ALL and see how that works for you.
The problem with this is that it can be hard to tell until you have
been using Office for a while...  One day you will try to open a
Japanese document or something and suddenly Office will start whining
for the installation media, and then you will do the install and have
to reinstall some of the updates, and so on.
Honestly, your best is to figure out the internal name for this
"Feature" and put it in a REMOVE=... switch after the ADDLOCAL=ALL
switch.  See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/remove_property.asp>.
(Note: I have not actually tried this, so I am not promising that it
will work.  Let me know how it goes...)
The only problem is figuring out the name of the feature.  If you
examine the log file c:\netinst\logs\office.txt, there might be some
clues.  Failing that, you can do an installation using "/l*v
...\office.txt" instead of "/l* ...\office.txt", which will generate a
"verbose" log file.  I can guarantee the information will be buried in
that one somewhere, although it may be hard to find in the 200K to
400K of output.
Or you could upgrade to Office 2003 :-).

- Pat
 



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