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OFF97: "Failed To Unregister .SRG File" Error When Uninstalling Office

Article ID: 217584

Article Last Modified on 11/22/2000



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q217584

SYMPTOMS

When you run the Office 97 setup program to remove Office 97, you may receive the following error:

Failed to unregister .SRG file

NOTE: This message may be repeated more than one time.

CAUSE

This behavior will occur when you do the following:

  1. Install Office 97.
  2. Install Office 2000 without removing Office 97.
  3. You then remove some or all of Office 97 at a later time.



RESOLUTION

Click OK to each of the messages, Setup will continue and finish correctly. Office 2000 will run correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords: kberrmsg kbbug kbpending KB217584