How Do I Uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial?

In order to help user achieving better work efficiency, Microsoft Office 2010 has been improved in nearly every aspect since the previous 2007 version, even though you may need to spend some time to adapt the new and reworked interface, it is still a worthy upgrade office software for either businesses or individual users. If you had tried out the Microsoft Office 2010 trial, you’ll need to remove it from your computer after it got expired, otherwise you will not be able to install the full version or other versions of Microsoft Office product. However, some people received this error message when trying to install the full version of Microsoft Office 2010:”Error 25004: The product key you entered cannot be used on this machine. This is most likely due to previous Office 2010 trials being installed. (System error: <result>)”. Does it look familiar? This issue is mainly caused by the incomplete uninstall of Microsoft Office 2010 Trial. To uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial thoroughly, here we provides an tutorial to help you get it done easily. Just free download the recommended tool to forcibly uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial in your system – Max Uninstaller here and follow the below steps:

 

Uninstall Office 2010 Trial automatically with Perfect Uninstaller

 

Here we take Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 trial as an example to show you how Perfect Uninstaller works to completely remove it. This tutorial applies to any trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 products (including Office 2010, Office Home and Student 2010, Office Home and Business 2010)

 

Uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Video demonstration

 

Step1: after the download of Perfect Uninstaller completed, double click the setup file to install in into your computer.

 

Step2: Open Perfect Uninstaller, locate and select Microsoft Office 2010 Trial icon in the right hand program list(in this case is Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010), and click “Run Analysis” button on the left hand bottom.

 

Step3: After all files and associated registry entries of Office 2010 Trial were scanned out, click “Complete Uninstall” button in the program, and click Yes on the prompted message to start the removal of Office 2010 Trial.

 

Step4: The standard removal of Office 2010 Trial will be completed in a few seconds, then click the Scan Leftovers button.

 

Step5: Perfect Uninstaller will scan over your computer to see what’s left behind in the system related to Office 2010 Trial. Once it finished, Click Delete Leftovers to thoroughly remove or uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial and all of its leftovers.

 

Step6: Click OK to finish the removal process of Office 2010 Trial

 

Now you have successfully uninstalled/removed Microsoft Office 2010 Trial (Home and Student 2010) completely from your computer.

 

Why use Perfect Uninstaller?

 

Most of the programs include this Microsoft Office 2010 Trial will create registry files once they are installed in the computer, normal uninstall solution is unable to clean up those files, that’s why people receive error messages when reinstall or install similar software. Some poor written applications even don’t offer the uninstall options that leave computer uses only headaches. Perfect Uninstaller is specially designed to handle the removal of such stubborn programs. With Perfect Uninstaller in hand, you can remove any thing you want from your computer completely without getting errors or any uninstall problems.

 

 

 

Remove Microsoft Office 2010 Trial Manually

 

If you prefer to do the Microsoft Office 2010 Trial removal manually, you should pay attention that there are a couple of areas need to be covered to ensure a complete removal. You may follow the below steps and try it yourselves. Normally these steps would help you uninstall the trial version of Office Professional 2010, Office Home and Student 2010, Home and Business 2010.

 

Microsoft Office 2010 trial components review

 

Microsoft Excel 2010

Microsoft OneNote 2010

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Microsoft Word 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 tools

Digital Certificate for VBA Projects

Microsoft Clip Organizer

Microsoft Office 2010 Language Preferences

Microsoft Office 2010 Upload Center

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Office Anytime Upgrade

 

As you can see, unlike other programs, there is no Microsoft Office 2010 uninstaller can be found in the Windows Start menu, to reach the build in uninstaller, you can:

Open your Office Word 2010, or Excel, PowerPoint will do.

Click on File menu, go to help.

Click the Licensing Operations button under the Trial Product section.

Click the Remove Trial option and follow the wizard to carry on.

If you do not see the Trial Product or Licensing Operations option, forward to the next section.

 

Uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 Trial from Windows Control Panel

For Windows XP/2000

Click Start menu and Control Panel

Click Add/Remove program.

Select the following Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 in the program list and click Remove

 

Follow the onscreen instruction to proceed

 

For Windows 7/Vista:

Click Start menu – Control Panel

Click Uninstall a program under the program category.

Locate Office 2010 Trial in the program list.

Click Uninstall button to start the removal of Office 2010 Trial

Follow the wizard to proceed.

 

Remove Microsoft Office 2010 Trial registry leftovers

Click Start – Run.

Type in “reedit” in the box and click OK to open registry editor.

Expand the registry tree by using the “>” or “+” sign and locate the below registry sub keys

 

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office Protection Platform

Right click on them and select delete.

 

Remove Microsoft Office 2010 Trial leftover folders and more…

Double click to open My Computer

Go to the directory of C:\Program Files.

Find out any file folder named “Microsoft Office” / “Office Update”

Right click to delete them.

Go back to your desktop

Right click on recycle bin and select Empty Recycle Bin

Restart your computer.